The document summarizes three scenarios of families with different approaches to allowing their teenage children to attend a movie on a Friday night. In the first scenario, Sally's mother said she could go but later changed her mind, leaving Sally to care for her brother while the mother went to a bar. In the second scenario, Mary's father enforced a strict curfew that prevented her from going, showing a lack of compromise. In the third scenario, Sam's parents allowed him a curfew extension after he completed his responsibilities, showing an ideal approach of responsibility, understanding and fairness.