Discover a grim reality facing all children and youth today called adultism. Do you feel like society treats young people poorly? Does youth empowerment
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Cultural Adultism
Cultural adultism is a very ambiguous, yet very prevalent, form of discrimination and intolerance towards youth. Any restriction or exploitation of people because of their young age, as
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Internalized Adultism
Internalized adultism is the deeply personal attitude of children, youth and adults that is biased towards adults. In his booklet called, Adults as Allies, [PDF] Barry
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Introduction to Adultism
Definition of Adultism There are three parts to the complete definition of adultism, from Adam Fletcher’s book Facing Adultism: Adultism is favoring adults by dismissing
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Convenient and Inconvenient Youth Voice
Many well-meaning adults who advocate for youth engagement too often consider only those elements of the younger population with which they are familiar. This is
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