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Consequences of Feminism
Gender equality is an honorable thing, but unfortunately it just seems to be about the most unreachable thing out there. Reading through the scores of literature on the global gender performance gap (with boys behind across the board) might just make you forget about the fact that relatively no...
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Published 17 hours ago

Misbehavior Becomes Criminal
Sometimes the illegality that has been imposed onto natural behaviors of children is not so much an issue of fining the average chalk drawing on the driveway or upholding a strict 6pm curfew despite the position of the sun in the sky. Sometimes it comes just through with just the right mixture of...
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Published a week ago

8-Year-Old Confession, Will it Hold Up?
If you haven't heard this story regarding an Arizona boy's double murder of two adults, including his father, the details of the event are provided here. The issue that seems to have caused the controversy regarding this incident centers around the confession he gave while he was being...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Graduate at 16
Should teenagers be able to graduate at the age of 16? In what would seem to be a vindication of Robert Epstein's suggestions toward the abolition of adolescence, comes news from New Hampshire's education officials who have announced a plan to proctor a state-wide examination in the tenth grade....
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Published 4 weeks ago

Obama Win is a Youth Victory
By almost every poll and estimate, the youth of the United States, those voters between 18 and 30, were one of the key demographics behind Obama's winning of the presidency.Not only should this be a congratulation to all those who could vote, who got out the vote in this election, but also for...
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Published 4 weeks ago

Paranoia Ends the Ice Rink
It is a bit of irony that just as YoungerWorld is doing a reasoned post on Questioning Child-Friendly Environments a news story comes out examplifying everything that is wrong with the very supposedly "child-friendly" approach. In a reversal best fitting of Orwell, things that are "well-meaning"...
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Published a month ago

Boy Meets Girl, Boy Gets Arrested
A middle school girl takes a naked picture of herself and sends it to a boy as text message on his cell phone. The 13-year-old boy gets caught with the image on his cell phone and is arrested for child pornography possession. The girl does not face any charges for the production and distribution...
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Published 2 months ago

Commercial Childhood, or To "Serve" Kids
...on a plate.”I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...” -Jonathan Swift (1729)Now of course Swift was...
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Published 2 months ago

Critique on "Perverted Justice"
Here are the facts concerning child sex abuse that vigilante group "Perverted Justice" doesn't want you to know or think about, so they can continue to sell their war on the smallest percent of child sex abuse cases and force society to look the other way on the more likely scenarios of child...
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Published 2 months ago

My Symbol of the Youth Movement
Here's my design for a potential symbol for the Youth Movement--a skewed Mobius Strip design of any color, one circle being physically larger than the other, but both being equal in the width of their outlines. The idea is that they are interconnected, the young and the old--one can not exist...
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Published 2 months ago

The Scarlet Letter "DCV" (Dress Code Violator )
You won't believe this. Coming just hours after the last major reporting of a school dress violator comes another even more disturbing story. This time about a high school student who was made to wear a ridiculous rag that said "DCV: Dress Code Violator" after being forced to remove his patriotic...
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Published 2 months ago

Suspended for Free Speech
Another case of the increasing illegality of childhood. Young people have the capability of voicing an opinion, they are just not allowed to express that capability in ways the school can't proof read. So now kids have to get suspended from school in order to vitalize and actualize their...
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Published 2 months ago