Youth Issues
During adolescence, roughly the years between the ages of 13 and 18, young people begin experimenting with the behavior, beliefs, and attitudes of adults, mingling some qualities of childhood with some of adulthood. While most youths depend on their parents or other relatives for support, they are entitled to the same rights and protections under the U.S. Constitution as adults. However, in some cases, government has set narrower limits on those rights.
"Youth is wholly experimental," wrote the British novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson. He meant that during adolescence young people move beyond their limited world of childhood and begin experimenting with the behavior, beliefs, and attitudes of adults. Adolescence is the life stage between childhood and adulthood, and in modern…>> (read more)
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