Title: Discrimination Against Youth – Freechild Institute
Headings: Discrimination Against Youth
Discrimination Against Youth
Identifying Discrimination
Discrimination against Youth in Language
Discrimination against Youth in Youth Work
Discrimination against Youth in School
Discrimination against Youth in Communities
How YOU Can Resist Discrimination Against Youth
Tips for Addressing Discrimination Against Youth
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Published by Adam F.C. Fletcher

Content: Adultism is not always harmful – but adultism is always real. Adultism leads to a phenomenon of “little adults” – young people who are “adults-in-the-making”, rather than children and youth today. Adultcentrism leads to manipulating and tokenizing young people through Youth Voice activities. Despite the intention, that process often further disengages young people! Adultism exists for a lot of reasons, including beliefs about the abilities of young people, roles of different people throughout society, and the nature of society. Those beliefs have sometimes lead to the fear of children, called pedophobia, and the fear of youth, called ephebiphobia. These fears drive much of society to segregate young people from adults, demonize youth in the media, and ostracize children from elders. These fears have filled our culture with double standards that constantly challenge young people. Identifying Discrimination
Identifying different forms of discrimination against young people throughout our society is important. Following are some of those forms.