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: While neither tendency is objectively superior to the other, older people hold up their own behavior as the standard by which all other behavior should be judged. Young people are subject to false negative stereotypes. Young people face negative stereotyping in the media, as well as in everyday life. However, stereotypes about young people are often hard to pin down because they contradict each other. Doing the exact opposite of what one stereotype says simply means we’ll be proving another. We’re trapped in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation. For example, we’re accused of being both: “Easily manipulated” but also “stubborn and rebellious.” “Violent and criminal,” but also “innocent and fragile.” “Angsty” but also “frivolous.”