What if there was a teenagers' rights movement? I'm thinking it would happen at the same time as civil rights and second-wave feminism.
More respect from society. Less zeal by society to protect them from themselves.Well, you already had the 26th Amendment passed in 1971, and we got rid of the draft after Vietnam. Other than lowering the drinking age, I'm not sure what else a teen rights movement could reasonably ask for.
This is more or less what you had with 1968 in France and to a large extent the youth movement in the USMore respect from society. Less zeal by society to protect them from themselves.
Yet they grew up to become Helicopter Parents.This is more or less what you had with 1968 in France and to a large extent the youth movement in the US
How about safe, well-run shelters for battered teenagers?Well, you already had the 26th Amendment passed in 1971, and we got rid of the draft after Vietnam. Other than lowering the drinking age, I'm not sure what else a teen rights movement could reasonably ask for.
What if there was a teenagers' rights movement? I'm thinking it would happen at the same time as civil rights and second-wave feminism.
Yet they grew up to become Helicopter Parents.
So IMHO you'd need a constitutional amendment that similar to the first two restricts the governments authority to pass restrictions on teenagers, no matter how many adult voters want them or how many "experts" claim it's for their own good.
That's not what I meant, and you know it. Would anybody be ok with slaveowners making porn with their slaves in it?Or feminists to agree that if porn publishers wanna pay a 15 year old girl to pose naked in hardcore magazines, and the girl wants to say yes, it's nobody else's business but the consenting parties.
Already happens a lot, and Bob Dole advocated it in his Presidential campaign.giving teenager criminals the same punishments as adults.
Plenty of "experts" once claimed that restricting blacks and women was for their own good.Yet they grew up to become Helicopter Parents.
So IMHO you'd need a constitutional amendment that similar to the first two restricts the governments authority to pass restrictions on teenagers, no matter how many adult voters want them or how many "experts" claim it's for their own good.
Aside from the voting age being lowered to match the military draft age, I'm not aware of any such movements.This is more or less what you had with 1968 in France and to a large extent the youth movement in the US
Read about 1968 in France, one of the slogan was "We don’t want a world where the guarantee of not dying of starvation brings the risk of dying of boredom" it was largely a protest about getting "respect" from the older generation and opening up universities to a wide range of applicants. It was very much a strike about youth rights.Aside from the voting age being lowered to match the military draft age, I'm not aware of any such movements.
Look up curfew laws and the troubled teen industry.Well, you already had the 26th Amendment passed in 1971, and we got rid of the draft after Vietnam. Other than lowering the drinking age, I'm not sure what else a teen rights movement could reasonably ask for.
I'd like to point out that Pelosi said that she's ok with a lower voting age and Gingrich said that "adolescence is a failed experiement."