Youth is an age group in the demographics of the United States. This group of young people in the United States are privileged to have multiple opportunities which they can take advantage of to have a bright and better future. However, there are also many concerns about the youth in the United States. In the 2010 United States census, 20.2% of the total population were 0–14 years old (30,305,704 females and 31,639,127 males).
Concerns from parents According to a survey of parents in 2011, the issues of greatest concern about children are as follows, with percentages of adults who rate each item as a "big problem": 5th annual survey by C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, the University of Michigan Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, and the University of Michigan Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Unit. Childhood obesity: 33% Drug abuse: 33% Tobacco smoking: 25% Teen pregnancy: 24% Bullying: 24% Internet safety: 23% Stress: 22% Alcohol abuse: 20% Driving accidents: 20% Sexting: 20%
Sexuality
Adolescent sexuality in the United States relates to the sexuality of American adolescents and its place in American society, both in terms of their feelings, behaviors and development and in terms of the response of the government, educators and interested groups. There have been several concerns with youth sexuality specially when they are sexually active without the proper care and guidance. Teen pregnancy is very common in the United States, but it also has problems with it. Teen pregnancy most of the time experience perinatal outcomes. These outcomes also appear to have high blood pressure, infection in the uterus, sexually transmitted infections and more. Teen pregnancies have a high risk of negative birth outcomes compared with adult individuals.
Youth rights
The National Youth Rights Association is the primary youth rights organization in the United States, with local chapters across the country and constant media exposure. The organization known as Americans for a Society Free from Age Restrictions is also an important organization. The Freechild Project has gained a reputation for interjecting youth rights issues into organizations historically focused on youth development and youth service through their consulting and training activities. The Global Youth Action Network engages young people around the world in advocating for youth rights, and Peacefire provides technology-specific support for youth rights activists.
Choose Responsibility and their successor organization, the Amethyst Initiative, founded by Dr. John McCardell Jr., exist to promote the discussion of the drinking age, specifically. Choose Responsibility focuses on promoting a legal drinking age of 18, but includes provisions such as education and licensing. The Amethyst Initiative, a collaboration of college presidents and other educators, focuses on discussion and examination of the drinking age, with specific attention paid to the culture of alcohol as it exists on college campuses and the negative impact of the drinking age on alcohol education and responsible drinking.
Youth politics
Youth vote
Mental health
Juvenile delinquency
Child support
Child labor
Youth unemployment
See also
History of childhood in the United States, for youth before 2010. Adolescent and young adult oncology Demographics of the United States Education in the United States History of education in the United States American family structure Child poverty in the United States Youth incarceration in the United States Street children in the United States Childhood obesity in the United States Boy Girl
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References
Further reading Fasick, Frank A. "On the" invention" of adolescence." The journal of early adolescence 14.1 (1994): 6-23. Kett, Joseph F. Rites of Passage: Adolescence in America, 1790 to the Present (Basic Books, 1977).
Kett, Joseph F. "Reflections on the history of adolescence in America." The History of the Family 8.3 (2003): 355-373. Lerner, Jacqueline V., Richard M. Lerner, and Jordan Finkelstein, eds. Adolescence in America: An Encyclopedia (2 volumes, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2001) online Modell, John. Into One's Own: From Youth to Adulthood in the United States, 1920-1975 (University of California Press. 1989). Palladino, Grace. Teenagers: An American History (Basic Books, 1996).
Remmers, H.H. and D.H Radler. The American Teenager (Bobbs Merrill, 1957).
Schrum, Kelly. Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls' Culture. 1920–1945 (Palgrave, 2004).
Zuckerman, Michael. "The paradox of American adolescence." The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 4.1 (2011): 11-25.