The following is a list of youth topics.
Activism - Adolescent - Adultcentrism - Advertising to children - Age of candidacy - Age of consent - Age of majority - Alternative school - American Youth Congress - Article 12 - Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies - Authoritarianism
Youth in Cambodia - Child labor - Child Labor Deterrence Act - Child labor laws - Child Labour Programme of Action - Children's literature - Children's rights - Children's rights in Islam - Children's rights movement - Child-selling - Child slavery - Civic engagement - Clique - Closed adoption - Cost of raising a child - Club - College - Coming of age - CommonAction - Community youth development - Company of Young Canadians - Concerned for Working Children - Confirmation - Conscientious objector - Contracts (right to sign) - Convention on the Rights of the Child - Corporal punishment - Councils - Crime - Culture - Curfews
Development (in general) - Development (Community) - Development (Positive) - Declaration of the Rights of the Child - Driving age - Drinking age - Dedovshchina - Disciplinary institutions (Michael Foucault) - Drama (television)
Ephebiphobia - Empowerment - Empowerment organizations - Evolving Capacities - Emancipation of minors - Education - Education reform - Escape From Childhood - Eternal youth - European Free Alliance Youth - European Youth Forum - Evolving capacities
Fear of children - Fear of youth - Free school (disambiguation) - Films - Fagging - Feral child - Framing Youth - The Freechild Project
Generations - Generation gap - Global/National Youth Service Day - Gulag schools - Graduation - Generation YES - Global Youth Action Network - Green Youth (disambiguation), youth divisions of Green political parties - Global/National Youth Service Day
History of Youth Rights in the United States - High school - Homeschooling - Hazing - Homelessness - Higher education - Hakfar Hayarok - Youth in Hong Kong
Idols - Impressment - In loco parentis - Intergenerational equity - International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour
Leadership - Leaving Certificate - Literature - Literacy - Levée en masse - Learn and Serve America - Liberal Religious Youth - List of books written by teenagers - London matchgirls strike of 1888
Media by youth - Medicine - Menarche - Medicine - Mentoring - Middle school - Military use of children - Ministry - Mobile phone - Movement - Movies - Music - Military conscription
National Commission on Resources for Youth - National Youth Administration - National Youth Leadership Council - National Youth Rights Association - New Games Book - The Newsboys Strike - Not Back to School Camp
Participation - Partnerships with adults - Participation - Pastors (youth) - Paternalism - Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Pedophobia - Pedophilia - Peacefire - Psychology - Peer pressure - Politics - Popular culture - Port Huron Statement - Positive youth development - Pre-teen - Pregnancy - Programs - Prostitution of children - Protectionism - Publications about youth - Publications for youth - Puberty - Pubertal
Radical Youth - Ragging - Rebellion - Rights - Right-to-work laws - Rite of passage - Runaway youth
SDLP Youth - Secondary education - Seijin shiki - Service - Sex education - Sexuality in Britain - Sexuality in India - Sexuality in the United States - Smoking age - Sports - Standardized test - Student activism - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee - Student rights - Students for a Democratic Society - Students for Sensible Drug Policy - Student voice - Socialist Youth - Subculture - Suicide - Sweet sixteen - Scouts Australia
Taking Children Seriously - Teenage pregnancy - Teenage rebellion - Television - Technical school - The Teenage Liberation Handbook - Total institution
Video games - Vocational education - Voice (in general) - Voice (in schools) - Vote - Voting age - Voting rights
Waithood - Wild in the Streets (movie) - Work - World Scout Committee - Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 - Worst Forms of Child Labour Recommendation
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Sex education, also known as sexual education, sexualityeducation or sex ed, is the instruction of issues relating to human sexuality, including emotional relations and responsibilities, human sexual anatomy, sexual activity, sexual reproduction, age of consent, reproductive health, reproductive rights, sexual health, safe sex and birth control. Sex education which includes all of these issues is known as comprehensive sex education, and is often opposed to abstinence-only sex education, which only focuses on sexual abstinence. Sex education may be provided by parents or caregivers or as part at school programs and public health campaigns. In some countries it is known as Relationships and Sexual health education.
Teenage pregnancy, also known as adolescent pregnancy, is pregnancy in a female under the age of 20, according to the WHO. Pregnancy can occur with sexual intercourse after the start of ovulation, which can be before the first menstrual period (menarche) but usually occurs after the onset of periods. In well-nourished girls, the first period usually takes place around the age of 12 or 13.
Youth is the time of life when one is young, and often means the time between childhood and adulthood (maturity). It is also defined as "the appearance, freshness, vigor, spirit, etc., characteristic of one who is young". Its definitions of a specific age range varies, as youth is not defined chronologically as a stage that can be tied to specific age ranges; nor can its end point be linked to specific activities, such as taking unpaid work or having sexual relations.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to childhood:
Youth empowerment is a process where children and young people are encouraged to take charge of their lives. They do this by addressing their situation and then take action in order to improve their access to resources and transform their consciousness through their beliefs, values, and attitudes. Youth empowerment aims to improve quality of life. Youth empowerment is achieved through participation in youth empowerment programs. However scholars argue that children's rights implementation should go beyond learning about formal rights and procedures to give birth to a concrete experience of rights. There are numerous models that youth empowerment programs use that help youth achieve empowerment. A variety of youth empowerment initiatives are underway around the world. These programs can be through non-profit organizations, government organizations, schools or private organizations.
Youth voice refers to the distinct ideas, opinions, attitudes, knowledge, and actions of young people as a collective body. The term youth voice often groups together a diversity of perspectives and experiences, regardless of backgrounds, identities, and cultural differences. It is frequently associated with the successful application of a variety of youth development activities, including service learning, youth research, and leadership training. Additional research has shown that engaging youth voice is an essential element of effective organizational development among community and youth-serving organizations.
Adultism is "the power adults have over children". More narrowly, adultism is defined as "prejudice and accompanying systematic discrimination against young people". On a more philosophical basis, the term has also been defined as "bias towards adults... and the social addiction to adults, including their ideas, activities, and attitudes".
Youth politics is a category of issues which distinctly involve, affect or otherwise impact youth. Youth politics encompasses youth policy that specifically has an impact on young people and how young people engage in politics including in institutional politics, youth organisations, but also in protest movements and lifestyle.
The youth rights movement in the United States has long been concerned with civil rights and intergenerational equity. Tracing its roots to youth activism during the Great Depression in the 1930s, the youth rights movement has influenced the civil rights movement, opposition to the Vietnam War, and many other movements. Since the advent of the Internet, youth rights is gaining predominance again.
Adultcentrism is the exaggerated egocentrism of adults, including the belief that an adult perspective is inherently better. It is used to describe the conditions facing children and youth in schools, homes, and community settings; however, adultcentrism is not always based on a notion of being good or bad, in contrast to adultism.
Articles related to children's rights include:
The youth rights movement seeks to grant the rights to young people that are traditionally reserved for adults, due to having reached a specific age or sufficient maturity. This is closely akin to the notion of evolving capacities within the children's rights movement, but the youth rights movement differs from the children's rights movement in that the latter places emphasis on the welfare and protection of children through the actions and decisions of adults, while the youth rights movement seeks to grant youth the liberty to make their own decisions autonomously in the ways adults are permitted to, or to lower the legal minimum ages at which such rights are acquired, such as the age of majority and the voting age.
Advocates for Youth is a nonprofit organization and advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., United States, dedicated to sexuality education, the prevention of HIV and of sexually transmitted disease, teenage pregnancy prevention, youth access to condoms and contraception, equality for LGBT youth, and youth participation. In addition, Advocates for Youth sponsors media campaigns and other forms of outreach which attempt to change societal norms to be more understanding of, accepting, of, and responsible about youth sexuality and to drive youth sexual health equity.
Youth councils are a form of youth voice engaged in community decision-making. Youth councils are appointed bodies that exist on local, state, provincial, regional, national, and international levels among governments, non governmental organisations (NGOs), schools, and other entities.
A Sex education curriculum is a sex education program encompassing the methods, materials, and assessments exercised to inform individuals of the issues relating to human sexuality, including human sexual anatomy, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse, reproductive health, emotional relations, reproductive rights and responsibilities, abstinence, birth control, and other aspects of human sexual behavior. Common sex education curricula include an abstinence-only approach, as well as a comprehensive approach, implemented in academia via the Internet, peer education, visual media, games, health care organizations, and school instruction.
Feminism in Thailand is perpetuated by many of the same traditional feminist theory foundations, though Thai feminism is facilitated through a medium of social movement activist groups within Thailand's illiberal democracy. The Thai State claims to function as a civil society with an intersectionality between gender inequality and activism in its political spheres.
Youth in Nigeria includes citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria aged 15–29 years according to the new youth policy (2019). However, the African youth charter recognises youth as people between 15 and 35. Variance in chronologies are used in defining youth and are addressed by members of the state in accordance to their particular society. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa with one of the largest populations of youth in the world, comprising 211,400,708 members. Excessive mortality from HIV/AIDS results in low life expectancy in Nigeria. As a result, the median age is 17.9.
Youth in the Dominican Republic constitutes just over 30% of the total population. The Dominican Republic's population at roughly eleven million people has grown tremendously with the help of the youth population. In 1960, the youth population was at 3.3 million, and by 2008, it had reached 9.5 million, with two thirds of them in urban areas of the country.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a considerable impact on female education. Female education relates to the unequal social norms and the specific forms of discrimination that girls face. In 2018, 130 million girls worldwide were out of school, and only two out of three girls were enrolled in secondary education. The COVID-19 pandemic may further widen the gaps and threatens to disrupt the education of more than 11 million girls. In addition, girls are less likely to have access to the Internet and online learning.