Title: WHAT ARE YOUTH RIGHTS? - NYRA
Headings: WHAT ARE YOUTH RIGHTS?
WHAT ARE YOUTH RIGHTS?
Young people are denied basic human and civil rights.
Young people are at the mercy of parents and older people.
Young people are held to a double standard of behavior.
Young people are subject to false negative stereotypes.
Young people are treated as incapable, even when quite capable.
Young people are segregated from older society.
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Content: We are less likely to be seen as individuals. Young people are unfairly lumped together in a way that older people are not. Whenever a young person does something wrong, society tends to blame “kids these days.” But whenever an older person does something wrong, society tends to blame only that individual and not “adults these days.” For example, people of all ages do odd and self-destructive things all the time, but it is never seen as part of a larger trend. However, one or two isolated cases of young people doing odd and self-destructive things are enough for the media to tell everyone that there is a “dangerous trend” among young people, when in fact almost no one is doing it. Our desire for independence is treated like a mental disorder. According to the manual used for classifying mental disorders, symptoms that suggest a need for treatment include: arguing with adults and other authority figures; refusing to comply with adults’ rules;