Teen/Youth Rights resource list: Teen advocates that you should know
"If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, " just to feel the warmth." - Michael J. Meade, D.H.L..
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Dr. Robert Epstein.
Teen 2.0: Saving Our Children and Families from the Torment of Adolescence
Adolescence & Adultness - Dr. Robert Epstein.
The Myth of the Teen Brain
Trashing Teens | Psychology Today
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Joseph Bronski:
An Empirical Introduction to Youth
Dr. Adriana Galvan:
The Innovative Teen Brain
David Moshman:
Adolescent Psychological Development: Rationality, Morality, and Identity
Adolescent Rationality and Development: Cognition, Morality, and Identity, Third Edition by David Moshman
Dan Romer:
Why it’s time to lay the stereotype of the ‘teen brain’ to rest
https://www.mindful.org/3-common-myths-about-the-teen-brain/
John Bruer:
Inside The Teenage Brain
Interviews - John Bruer | Inside The Teenage Brain | FRONTLINE | PBS
The Teenage Brain: Debunking the 5 Biggest Myths | HuffPost Life
Articles & a playlist:
Teenage Dystopia: The Cycle of Oppression and Resistance | The Daily Bell
Is Mass Schooling behind the Anxiety Epidemic among Teens? - Foundation for Economic Education
Public Education to Blame for the Crippling Anxiety Epidemic Among Teens | Think About Now
Teens Can Do More than We Think | Free Range Kids
Changes in the Teen Years: From Joy-Filled Parenting with Teens - Barbara Moon Books
Why Do Teens Take Dangerous Risks? (Actually, They Don't) - Parentology
#198: Wisdom and Risky Teens with Dr. Dan Romer – Smart Drug Smarts
Teenagers Might Have a Problem With Respect But It's Not the One You Think -Developmental Science
Culturing the adolescent brain: what can neuroscience learn from anthropology? By Suparna Choudhury, National Center for Biotechnology Information
Beyond stereotypes of adolescent risk taking: Placing the adolescent brain in developmental context by Daniel Romer, Valerie F. Reyna, and Theodore D. Satterthwaite
Organisations and resources:
National Youth Rights Foundation
heal-online.org/HEAL's TEEN LIBERTY AGENDA
TEEN AND CHILDREN'S LEGAL RIGHTS/ADDITIONAL HEAL RESOURCES
American Civil Liberties Union
The Center for Effective Discipline
The Rebelution: rebelling against low expectations
Troubled teen industry:
Organisations and resources:
Troubled Teen Industry HEAL Program Watch-List
The Troubled Teen Industry | WWASP Survivors
Survivor Stories/breakingthesilence
Surviving Straight Inc - Books - Troubled Teen Industry
Articles:
The Trouble with Troubled Teen Programs – Reason.com
The “Troubled Teen” Industry - NYRA
How Boot Camps For Troubled Teens Are Really Like (r/AskReddit) - YouTube
Troubled Teen Industry Survivors Expose Institutional Child Abuse & Red Flags - YouTube
Why are teenagers so damn angry? : teenagers
Maybe school is why teens are so desensitized : teenagers
Why are European teenagers less controlled by their parents than Americans? - Quora
You make good points, but realize that Dr. Robert Epstein cannot be truly called a youth rights defenders.
He makes good arguments for allowing youths more autonomy in Teen 2.0, but he stops far short of that through requiring competency tests to be considered legally adult. I cannot tell you just the nightmarish situation we would be in with the logistics, lawsuits, legal battles, and new agencies we would have to create.
Not to mention that the man has publicly endorsed arranged marriage, which contradicts his belief in youth autonomy and maturity. If teens are truly mature, as Epstein claims to believe, why should their elders force them into marriages against their will? While there is nothing wrong with parents taking wives for their sons and husbands for their daughters, forcing is wrong.
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https://sarahli1987.substack.com/p/a-review-of-teen-20-saving-our-children