Youth in the United States
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Youth is an
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":[2]
- 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
Youth rights
The
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
With roots in the early
Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement of danger. It demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. - Robert F. Kennedy, South Africa, 6-6-1966
Youth vote
The youth vote in the United States is the cohort of 18–24 year-olds as a voting demographic,[3] though some scholars define youth voting as voters under 30.[4] Many policy areas specifically affect the youth of the United States, such as education issues and the juvenile justice system;[5] however, young people also care about issues that affect the population as a whole, such as national debt and war.[6]
Young people have the lowest turnout, though as the individual ages, turnout increases to a peak at the age of 50 and then falls again.[7]
Ever since 18-year-olds were given the right to vote in 1971 through theMental health
According to the
According to Mental Health America, more than 10% of young people exhibit symptoms of depression strong enough to severely undermine their ability to function at school, at home, or whilst managing relationships.[19]
A 2021 study conducted by NIMH managed to link 31.4% of suicide deaths to a mental health disorder, the most common ones being attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or depression.[20] Suicide was the second leading cause of death among persons aged 10–29 years in the United States during 2011–2019.[21] More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease combined.[22] There are an average of over 3,470 attempts by students in grades 9–12.[23]
According to APA, the percentage of students going for college mental health counselling has been rising in recent years, which by report for anxiety as the most common factor, depression as the second, stress as the third, family issues as the fourth, and academic performance and relationship problems as the fifth and sixth most.[24]Juvenile delinquency
Child support
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Child labor
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Youth unemployment
The general
See also
- Adolescent and young adult oncology
- Demographics of the United States
- 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
- Effect of World War I on children in the United States
- Childhood obesity in the United States
Other countries:
References
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- ^ [1][permanent dead link] 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.
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- ^ a b "Youth unemployment rate, aged 15-24, men". United Nations Statistic Division. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
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- ^ a b "EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG YOUTH—SUMMER 2017" (PDF). US Bureau of Labor Statistics. 16 August 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 July 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2018. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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