Youth rights

Several of these perceptions include the assumption that young people are incapable of making crucial decisions and need protecting from their tendency to act impulsively or irrationally.

Restrictions on young people that aren't applied to adults may be called status offenses and viewed as a form of unjustified discrimination.

There are also efforts to get young people elected to prominent positions in local communities, including as members of city councils and as mayors.

Generally, the importance of judging each individual by observable relevant behaviors and not by birth date is stressed by advocates of these views.

When individuals grow up, they are granted new rights (such as voting, consent, and driving) and duties (such as criminal responsibility and draft eligibility).

There are different minimum limits of age at which youth are, situationally, not independent or deemed legally competent to make certain decisions or take certain actions.

Some rights and responsibilities that legally come with age are: After youth reach these limits they are free to vote, buy or consume alcohol beverages, and drive cars, among other acts.

Choose Responsibility and their successor organization, the Amethyst Initiative, founded by John McCardell, Jr., exist to promote the discussion of the drinking age, specifically.

[14] Youth rights, as a philosophy and as a movement, has been informed and is led by a variety of individuals and institutions across the United States and around the world.

In the 1960s and 70s John Holt, Richard Farson, Paul Goodman and Neil Postman were regarded authors who spoke out about youth rights throughout society, including education, government, social services and popular citizenship.

Shulamith Firestone also wrote about youth rights issues in the second-wave feminist classic The Dialectic of Sex.

Males is a prominent sociologist and researcher who has published several books regarding the rights of young people across the United States.