This is one of those things that some parents just don't get. People and especially Teenage people are far less likely to respect something they didn't have to earn. By supplying them with a piece of freedom like a motor vehicle without making them earn it, you are asking for trouble. It may start with a wrecked car but will end up shaping your kids expectations(outlook on life) for years to come.

This is very serious! This could very well be the difference between your child becoming a liberal or conservative. For the sake of the country, MAKE THEM EARN IT!

I think kids should buy their own cars or at least help pay for the car and the insurance. They can't appreciate anything that doesn't cost them something. One of the spoiled brats cutie refers to woke us up one night by crashing into our car and sending it crashing into our neighbors two cars. She had already totaled another car just before that and her daddy had replaced that car with another one which she was driving (drunk) that night. It was a miracle that no one was killed that night. Make your kids earn what they get.

Hey me and my brother had to buy ours so let them buy theirs,teach them some things that way.