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• Adultcentrism
  Adultcentrism
  Adultcentrism is the exaggerated egocentrism of adults. It is used to describe the conditions facing children and youth in schools, homes, and community settings; however, adultcentrism is not always based on a notion of being good or bad, in contrast to adultism...
  
  
• Adultism
  Adultism
  Adultism has been defined as "the power adults have over children". More narrowly, 'adultism is prejudice and accompanying systematic discrimination against young people'...
  
  
• Age of candidacy
  Age of candidacy
  Age of candidacy is the minimum age at which a person can legally qualify to hold certain elected government offices. In many cases, it also determines the age at which a person may be eligible to stand for an election or be granted ballot access....
  
  
• Age of consent
  Age of consent
  While the phrase age of consent typically does not appear in legal statutes, when used in relation to sexual activity, the age of consent is the minimum age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts. The European Union calls it the legal age for sexual...
  
  
• Age of majority
  Age of majority
  The age of majority is the threshold of adulthood as it is conceptualized in law. It is the chronological moment when minors cease to legally be considered children and assume control over their persons, actions, and decisions, thereby terminating the legal control and legal responsibilities of...
  
  
• Ageism
  Ageism
  Ageism, also called age discrimination is stereotyping of and discrimination against individuals or groups because of their age. It is a set of beliefs, attitudes, norms, and values used to justify age based prejudice, discrimination, and subordination...
  
  
• Alternative school
  Alternative school
  Alternative school is the name used in some parts of the world to describe an institution which provides part of alternative education. It is an educational establishment with a curriculum and methods that are nontraditional...
  
  
• Americans for a Society Free from Age Restrictions
  Americans for a Society Free from Age Restrictions
  Americans for a Society Free from Age Restrictions, also known as ASFAR Youth Liberation, is an organization dedicated to increasing the rights of youth under American law...
  
  
• Article 12 in Scotland
  Article 12 in Scotland
  Article 12 in Scotland is an independent, young person led, NGO that works to promote youth rights as set out in international human rights charters through the medium of peer education....
  
  

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• Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co.
• "Barting Over
  Barting Over
  "Barting Over" is an episode of The Simpsons advertised by Fox, and indicated on-screen, to be the 300th episode of the show . It aired on February 16, 2003. In this episode, Bart discovers that he used to be a child star in commercials—and that Homer blew all the money he earned...
  
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• Behavior modification facility
  Behavior modification facility
  A behavior modification facility is a residential educational and treatment institution enrolling adolescents who are perceived as displaying antisocial behavior, in an attempt to alter their conduct. As of 2008 there were about 650 nongovernmental, residential programs in the United States...
  
  

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• Camel racing
  Camel racing
  Camel racing is a popular sport in India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Australia, and Mongolia. Professional camel racing, like horse racing, is an event for betting and tourist attraction...
  
  
• Chicano Youth Liberation Movement
• Child advocacy
  Child advocacy
  Child advocacy refers to a range of individuals, professionals and advocacy organizations who promote the optimal development of children. An individual or organization engaging in advocacy typically seeks to protect children's rights which may be abridged or abused in a number of areas.- Rights...
  
  
• Child labor
  Child labor
  Child labour refers to the employment of children at regular and sustained labour. This practice is considered exploitative by many international organizations and is illegal in many countries...
  
  
• Child Labor Deterrence Act
  Child Labor Deterrence Act
  The Child Labor Deterrence Act was created by United States Senator of the Democratic Party Tom Harkin of Iowa, and was first proposed in the United States Congress in 1992, with subsequent propositions in 1993, 1995, 1997 and 1999...
  
  
• Child labor laws in the United States
  Child labor laws in the United States
  Child labor laws in the United States include numerous statutes and rules regulating the employment of minors. According to the United States Department of Labor, child labor laws affect those under the age of 18 in a variety of occupations....
  
  
• Child suffrage
• Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
  Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
  The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 is a United States federal law, located at .The act, effective April 21, 2000, applies to the online collection of personal information by persons or entities under U.S. jurisdiction from children under 13 years of age...
  
  
• Closed adoption
  Closed adoption
  Closed adoption is the process by where an infant is adopted by another family, and the record of the biological parent is kept sealed...
  
  
• Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission
• Compulsory education
  Compulsory education
  Compulsory education refers to a period of education that is required of all persons.-Antiquity to Medieval Era:Although Plato's The Republic is credited with having popularized the concept of compulsory education in Western intellectual thought, every parent in Judea since Moses's Covenant with...
  
  
• Conscription
  Conscription
  Conscription is the compulsory enlistment of people in some sort of national service, most often military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and continues in some countries to the present day under various names...
  
  
• Contract signing rights
  Contract
  A contract is an agreement entered into by two parties or more with the intention of creating a legal obligation, which may have elements in writing. Contracts can be made orally. The remedy for breach of contract can be "damages" or compensation of money. In equity, the remedy can be specific...
  
  
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
  Convention on the Rights of the Child
  The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child is a human rights treaty setting out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children...
  
  
• Corporal punishment
  Corporal punishment
  Corporal punishment is a form of physical punishment that involves the deliberate infliction of pain as retribution for an offence, or for the purpose of disciplining or reforming a wrongdoer, or to deter attitudes or behaviour deemed unacceptable...
  
  
• Criminalization
  Criminalization
  Criminalization or criminalisation, in criminology, is "the process by which behaviors and individuals are transformed into crime and criminals". Previously legal acts may be transformed into crimes by legislation or judicial decision...
  
  
• Curfew
  Curfew
  A curfew is an order specifying a time after which certain regulations apply. Examples:# An order by a government for certain persons to return home daily before a certain time...
  
  
• child abuse
  Child abuse
  Child abuse is the physical, sexual, emotional mistreatment, or neglect of a child. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Children And Families define child maltreatment as any act or series of acts of commission or omission by a parent or...
  
  

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• Emancipation
  Emancipation
  Emancipation means the act of setting an individual or social group free or making equal to citizens in a political society.Emancipation may also refer to:* Emancipation , a champion Australian thoroughbred racehorse foaled in 1979...
  
  
• Emancipation of minors
  Emancipation of minors
  An emancipated minor is a minor who is allowed to conduct a business or any other occupation on their own behalf or for their own account outside the influence of a parent or guardian. The minor will then have full contractual capacity to conclude contract with regard to the business. Whether...
  
  
• Ephebophobia
• Escape From Childhood
  Escape From Childhood
  Escape from Childhood: The Needs and Rights of Children is a book by John Caldwell Holt. ISBN 978-0345244345For most of John Holt’s career as an author he wrote primarily about schooling...
  
  
• Ever Reviled Records
  Ever Reviled Records
  Ever Reviled Records is a record label founded by Darren Deicide that releases counterculture music.Ever Reviled Records was founded in 1998 and has released albums by David Rovics, Darren Deicide, The Old Man and his Po Buckra, Nathan Carpenter, Cuomo!, Hopeless Dregs of Humanity, Give Us...
  
  
• Evolving capacities
  Evolving capacities
  Evolving capacities is the concept in which education, child development and youth development programs led by adults takes into account the capacities of the child or youth to exercise rights on his or her own behalf...
  
  

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• Fair Labor Standards Act
  Fair Labor Standards Act
  The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 is a federal statute of the United States. The FLSA established a national minimum wage, guaranteed 'time-and-a-half' for overtime in certain jobs, and prohibited most employment of minors in "oppressive child labor," a term that is defined in the statute...
  
  
• Fear of children
  Fear of children
  Fear of children, fear of infants or fear of childhood is alternatively called pedophobia, paedophobia or pediaphobia. Other age-focused fears are ephebiphobia and gerontophobia...
  
  
• Fear of youth
• Adam Fletcher
  Adam Fletcher (activist)
  Adam Fletcher is a leading advocate, author, motivational speaker, and educator focused on youth voice and student engagement, recognized for founding The Freechild Project. His work centers on youth studies, critical thinking and the development of democratic society, and has been acknowledged as...
  
  

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• Hammer v. Dagenhart
  Hammer v. Dagenhart
  Hammer v. Dagenhart, 247 U.S. 251 , was a United States Supreme Court decision involving the power of Congress to enact child labor laws...
  
  
• David J. Hanson
  David J. Hanson
  David Justin Hanson is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the State University of New York in Potsdam, New York. He has researched the subject of alcohol and drinking for over 30 years, beginning with his PhD dissertation investigation, and has written widely on the subject.Hanson is often...
  
  
• History of Youth Rights in the United States
  History of youth rights in the United States
  First emerging as a distinct movement in the 1930s, the history of youth rights in the United States has long been concerned with civil rights and intergenerational equity. Tracing its roots to youth activists during the Great Depression, youth rights has influenced the civil rights movement,...
  
  
• John Caldwell Holt
  John Caldwell Holt
  John Caldwell Holt was an American author and educator, a proponent of homeschooling, and a pioneer in youth rights theory.-Biography:...
  
  
• Homeschooling
  Homeschooling
  Homeschooling or homeschool is the education of children at home, typically by parents but sometimes by tutors, rather than in other formal settings of public or private school...
  
  

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• Juvenile delinquency
  Juvenile delinquency
  Juvenile delinquency is participation in illegal behavior by minors who fall under a statutory age limit. Most legal systems prescribe specific procedures for dealing with juveniles, such as juvenile detention centers. There are a multitude of different theories on the causes of crime, most if not...
  
  
• :Category:Juvenile law
• Juvenile court
  Juvenile court
  A juvenile court is a tribunal having special authority to try and pass judgments for crimes committed by children or adolescents who have not attained the age of majority...
  
  
• Juvenile Liaison
  Juvenile Liaison
  Juvenile Liaison 1 and Juvenile Liaison 2 are documentary films by Nick Broomfield about a juvenile liaison project in Blackburn, Lancashire. The first film examines a series of children and their run-ins with the law, over minor wrongdoings such as apple theft...
  
  

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• Hardy Machia
  Hardy Machia
  Hardy Machia was the Libertarian Party candidate for governor of Vermont in 2004, finishing 4th of 5 with 0.8% of the vote. In 1999, he entered the selectboard of Grand Isle, Vermont. In 2001, he became a Grand Juror, and the following year became the Grand Isle Justice of the Peace...
  
  
• "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays
  Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays
  "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays" is the eighth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season. After Lindsay Naegle forms an anti-children group, Marge fights back with a group led with Mr. Burns' power. The episode originally aired on January 4, 2004. It was written by...
  
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• Mike Males
• Minimum driving age
• Minor (law)
  Minor (law)
  In law, a minor is a person under a certain age — the age of majority — which legally demarcates childhood from adulthood; the age depends upon jurisdiction and application, but is typically 18...
  
  
• Minors and abortion
• Morse v. Frederick

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• Paternalism
  Paternalism
  Paternalism refers to attitudes or states of affairs that exemplify a traditional relationship between father and child. Two conditions of paternalism are usually identified: interference with liberty and a beneficent intention towards those whose liberty is interfered with...
  
  
• Peacefire
  Peacefire
  Peacefire is a U.S.-based website, with a registered address in Bellevue, Washington, dedicated to "preserving First Amendment rights for Internet users, particularly those younger than 18". It was founded in August 1996 by Bennett Haselton, who still runs it...
  
  
• Pedophobia
• Port Huron Statement
  Port Huron Statement
  The Port Huron Statement is the manifesto of the American student activist movement Students for a Democratic Society , written primarily by Tom Hayden, then the Field Secretary of SDS, and completed on June 15, 1962 at an SDS convention at what is now a state park in Lakeport, Michigan, a...
  
  
• Neil Postman
  Neil Postman
  Neil Postman was an American author, media theorist and cultural critic, who is best known by the general public for his 1985 book about television, Amusing Ourselves to Death. For more than forty years, he was associated with New York University...
  
  

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• Social class
  Social class
  Social classes are economic or cultural arrangements of groups in society. Class is an essential object of analysis for sociologists, political scientists, economists, anthropologists and social historians. In the social sciences, social class is often discussed in terms of 'social stratification'...
  
  
• Sonia Yaco
  Sonia Yaco
  Sonia Yaco was the 1972 Human Rights Party candidate for the Ann Arbor, Michigan school board. When she ran for office at the age of fifteen, she became the youngest documented candidate ever for a publicly elected school board seat in the United States....
  
  
• Status offense
  Status offense
  Two common definitions of a status offense or status crime are1. A status offense is an action that is prohibited only to a certain class of people, and most often applied to offenses only committed by minors....
  
  
• Student activism
  Student activism
  Student activism is work done by students to effect political, environmental, economic, or social change. It has often focused on making changes in schools, such as increasing student influence over curriculum or improving educational funding...
  
  
• Student rights
  Student rights
  Student rights are those rights which protect students, here meaning those persons attending schools, universities and other educational institutions...
  
  
• Students for a Democratic Society
  Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)
  Students for a Democratic Society was a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country's New Left. The organization developed and expanded rapidly in the mid-1960s before dissolving at its last convention in 1969...
  
  
• Suffrage
  Suffrage
  Suffrage, political franchise, or simply the franchise, distinct from mere voting rights, is the civil right to vote gained through the democratic process...
  
  

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• Taking Children Seriously
  Taking Children Seriously
  Taking Children Seriously is a parenting movement and educational philosophy whose central idea is that it is possible and desirable to raise and educate children without either doing anything to them against their will, or making them do anything against their will.It was founded in 1994 as an...
  
  
• "The President Wore Pearls
  The President Wore Pearls
  "The President Wore Pearls" is the third episode of the The Simpsons fifteenth season, first broadcast on November 16, 2003. The episode was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Music And Lyrics .-Plot:...
  
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• The Freechild Project
• Three O'Clock Lobby
  Three O'Clock Lobby
  The Three O'Clock Lobby was a statewide, youth-run youth advocacy organization in Michigan in the late 1970s. It was one of the forerunners of the American youth rights movement.- Formation :...
  
  

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• Youth activism
  Youth activism
  Youth activism is when the youth voice is engaged in community organizing for social change. Around the world, young people are engaged in activism as planners, researchers, teachers, evaluators, social workers, decision-makers, advocates and leading actors in the environmental movement, social...
  
  
• Youth/adult partnerships
• Young Communist League of Canada
  Young Communist League of Canada
  The Young Communist League of Canada is a Marxist-Leninist youth organization which fights to build a powerful youth and student movement across Canada and for socialism.According to their website,- History :...
  
  
• Youth empowerment
  Youth empowerment
  Youth empowerment is an attitudinal, structural, and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability, authority, and agency to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and the lives of other people, including youth and adults....
  
  
• Youth for America Political Action Committee
  Youth for America Political Action Committee
  Youth for America Political Action Committee was a nationwide political action committee meant to foster increased involvement in the American political system by individuals between the ages of 14 and 25. It was started in early 2000 by Raymond Lahoud and dissolved in 2005....
  
  
• Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor
  Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor
  Youth Liberation of Ann Arbor was an organization based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It existed from 1970 to 1979, and is often cited in more recent academic literature as one of the leading forerunners of several youth movements in the United States, including the youth rights movement, youth voice...
  
  
• Youth participation
  Youth participation
  Youth participation is the active engagement of young people throughout their communities. It is often used as a short-hand for youth participation in any many forms, including decision-making, sports, schools and any activity where young people are not historically engaged.-Coinage:Youth...
  
  
• Youth politics
  Youth politics
  Youth politics is a category of issues which distinctly involve, affect or otherwise impact youth.-USA:With roots in the early youth activism of the Newsboys and Mother Jones' child labor protests at the turn of the 20th century, youth politics were first identified in American politics with the...
  
  
• Youth rights
  Youth rights
  Youth rights refers to a set of philosophies intended to enhance civil rights for young people. They are a response to the oppression of young people, with advocates challenging ephebiphobia, adultism and ageism through youth participation, youth/adult partnerships, and promoting, ultimately,...
  
  
• Youth suffrage
  Youth suffrage
  Youth suffrage, or children's suffrage, is the right to vote for young people and forms part of the broader youth rights movement. Until recently Iran had a voting age of 15; Austria, Brazil, Cuba and Nicaragua have a voting age of 16; and Indonesia, East Timor, Sudan, and Seychelles have a voting...
  
  
• Youth voice
  Youth voice
  Youth voice refers to the distinct ideas, opinions, attitudes, knowledge, and actions of young people as a collective body. The term youth voice often groups together a diversity of perspectives and experiences, regardless of backgrounds, identities, and cultural differences...
  
  

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• Zero tolerance (schools)
  Zero tolerance (schools)
  A zero-tolerance policy in schools is a policy of punishing any infraction of a rule, regardless of accidental mistakes, ignorance, or extenuating circumstances. In schools, common zero-tolerance policies concern possession or use of drugs or weapons...