Youth Rights

This is more of a personal post, but I found this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_rights) on Wikipedia, and I realized that it is right up our alley. I will put some of these links on the links section on our blog. Directly from the Wikipedia article, these are key youth rights issues

• Adultism
• Age of candidacy
• Age of consent
• Age of majority
• Ageism
• Child labor laws/Right-to-work
• Closed adoption
• Corporal punishment
• Curfews
• Drinking age
• Driving age
• Emancipation of minors
• Ephebiphobia
• Gulag schools
• Minors and abortion
• Pedophobia
• Right to sign a Contract
• Student rights
• Voting age
• Unschooling
• Youth participation
• Youth Responsibility Blindness (such as saying, "If one kid is irresponsible, every kid on the planet is.")
• Zero tolerance
• In loco parentis

Here are some links to more youth rights organizations.

• http://www.youthrights.org/
• http://www.freechild.org/
• http://www.youthlink.org/
• http://www.peacefire.org/