The Young and Defenceless is an EP by Welsh post-hardcore band Funeral for a Friend, released on September 6, 2010.

The title of the EP is sourced from a lyric in the track "Sixteen".

This is the first release by Funeral for a Friend that includes bassist Richard Boucher and is also the first release to feature former bassist Gavin Burrough on guitars.

On October 29, 2010, the band released a music video for the song "Serpents in Solitude".

[4][5] Two songs from the EP: "Sixteen" and "Damned If You Do, Dead If You Don't" were also later featured in the band's fifth full-length studio album Welcome Home Armageddon in 2011.