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== Motivation ==
Some intrinsic rights of young people are not respected. People don't seem to understand the implications. 

We believe that young people deserve: '''''[[The issues]]'''''<sup>[placeholder]</sup>.

== Discrimination against young people ==

* [[coercive control]], often from parents, including invasion of privacy, tracking, and denial of basic liberties
* [[age-based restrictions]] including [[teen curfews]], [[the voting age]] and bans on buying certain items
* [[social media bans]] and other forms of government interference with young people's personal development, well-being and access to information and support
* [[authoritarian schooling systems]] including [[school corporal punishment in the 21st century]] and [[school corporal punishment prior to the 21st century]], as well as the [[school to prison pipeline]]
* [[authoritarian parenting]] including [[parental corporal punishment in the 21st century]] and [[parental corporal punishment prior to the 21st century]]
* children are denied the [[right to leave their parents]] and are punished for [[Runaways|running away from their parents]]
* [[interference in young people's bodily autonomy]] including genital mutilation, forced medical treatment and denying basic medical treatment to children

== Online resources ==
https://takingchildrenseriously.com/ This website has essays mostly related to parenting that support treating children with no coercion.

https://discord.gg/pBBJWnNscU This is a small discord server for youth liberationists to talk about these issues.

== Local resources in the UK ==
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/

== Local resources in the USA ==
[https://www.youthrights.org www.youthrights.org] A local organisation limited to the USA. This website has numerous articles and videos, including interviews and podcasts all about youth rights.

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