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During the 1980s, Youth Liberation faded out (for curious reasons) and morphed into a more superficially-oriented children's rights movement. Youth rights is different from children's rights, and at times the two movements are at odds with each other (again, for curious reasons). The children's rights movement advocates changes that are often restrictive, protection oriented, and paternalistic, that is, done for children rather than by children. While great strides were made by children's rights groups in combating child abuse during the 80s, great deceit was also perpetrated, i.e. in the form of well-financed professional adults taking control of children's voices and autonomy; a comparison of 1970s youth liberation literature and present literature should make that abundantly clear, despite the rhetoric.

In the mid- 1990s, a youth led movement for self-determination rights began on the Internet. This reborn Youth Rights movement coalesced in 1996 into Americans for a Society Free from Age Restrictions ( ASFAR). Divisions soon emerged between radicals and moderates within ASFAR leading to the formation in 1998 of the National Youth Rights Association. Led by NYRA and its leader Alex Koroknay-Palicz the Youth Rights movement is building support, refining its philosophy, and intent on taking Youth Rights to the mainstream.

1 Key Youth Rights Issues

• Drinking age
• Voting age
• CurfewA curfew can be one of the following: # An order by the government for certain persons to return home before a certain time. It can either be to maintain public order (such as that after the 2003 U. Canada blackout), or to suppress targeted groups (such as
• EmancipationEmancipation means becoming free and equal; the term can be used in various contexts: historically, a slave becoming free by being set free by the owner ( manumission), voluntarily or in accordance with laws requiring it after a certain time or in certain
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• UnschoolingUnschooling is the term given to an increasingly popular method of homeschooling. Proponents of unschooling argue that a system of public education does not allow children to recieve the best education available, as it is too centralized. Under unschoolin
• corporal punishmentCorporal punishment is the deliberate infliction of pain to someone as correction or punishment. When used for the punishment of criminals or slaves, it is usually applied using an instrument such as a cane or a whip such as the cat-o-nine-tails' once use
• Zero toleranceZero tolerance is a strict approach to rule enforcement. It can be used as the basis of formal laws in a country or region, or in a smaller environment, such as a public school. As the name suggests, zero tolerance policies allow for absolutely no levels
• Student rightsIn 1969 the United States federal courts ruled that, "Students do not shed their constitutional rights. at the schoolhouse gate" in the famous student rights case of Tinker v. Des Moines''. Student rights that are often violated include protections agains