National Youth Rights Association

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (ABP) – A Baptist church in Florida is barring children from attendance where a registered sex offender has been preaching since the end of January. Jacksonville television station WJXT quoted a woman Feb. 19 who said she was turned away on a recent Sunday when she tried to bring a 2-year-old boy she [...]

This is part of the Youth Rights 101 series. Please check out Youth Rights 101: Introduction for the rest of the series and more information. Aren’t curfew laws necessary to keep kids safe and out of trouble? Should kids really be out so late? The real question is, should anyone be out so late, of [...]

WASILLA — Jim Dault and Shala Dobson are proud to display their artwork at Wasilla High School. After all, the Meadow Lakes artists are Valley residents and have a familial connection with the school. That’s why Jan. 29 was an exciting day, Dault said. That’s the day they installed their sculpture “Warrior Within” in front [...]

It’s been two years since that February Tuesday we decided to try out the idea of a day dedicated to promoting lowering the voting age on Twitter, using a hashtag. The chosen hashtag was, of course, #16tovote, a term used previously by NYRA of Southeast Florida’s lower voting age campaign. Watching others on Twitter use [...]

2012-02-15 Windy City Times http://www.windycitymediagroup…..36212.html JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A federal district court ruled today that the Camdenton R-III School District must stop censoring web content geared toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities through discriminatory filtering software. The ruling orders the district to not block content based on the viewpoints expressed by [...]

14th February 2012 Student Press Law Center http://www.splc.org/wordpress/?p=3199   Unless an outbreak of common sense sweeps through the Statehouse, Indiana is about to become the most frightening place in America to be a kid. House Bill 1169, pushed by the special-interest lobbyists for school administrators, would unleash school principals to control essentially anything their students [...]

This is part of the Youth Rights 101 series. Please check out Youth Rights 101: Introduction for the rest of the series and more information. Is it really so important for youth to have the right to vote? Of course! While some may debate how low the voting age should go, under what conditions, and [...]

So, by now, we’ve all heard about that horrible man who made a video shooting his daughter’s laptop because… he was upset over something she said about him on Facebook. Something he only even knew about because he hacked into her account somehow, apparently. Perhaps even more disturbing than the idea this even happened is [...]

February 10, 2012 – MSNBC – http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_…..xperts-say Parents angry about Facebook use now have their poster child. He’s a dad wielding a .45 pistol, who posted a YouTube video showing him firing bullets through his daughter’s laptop computer as an act of discipline. The shooter, who identifies himself as Tommy Jordan from North Carolina, has [...]

This is part of the Youth Rights 101 series. Please check out Youth Rights 101: Introduction for the rest of the series and more information. How are young people’s free speech rights violated? Look no further than the meme of “washing” a child’s mouth out with soap if she utters a swear word. Many probably [...]

February 8, 2012 The Moral Liberal http://www.themoralliberal.com/2012/02/08/eleventh-circuit-affirms-ruling-against-former-valdosta-state-president-in-victory-for-student-rights/   ATLANTA, February 8, 2012—In a victory for student rights, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a unanimous decision late yesterday in the case of Barnes v. Zaccari, holding that former Valdosta State University (VSU) President Ronald M. Zaccari may be found personally [...]

February 09, 2012 FoxNews.com http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/09/virginia-school-district-considers-ban-on-cross-dressing-students/   A Virginia school district is considering banning cross-dressing by students, out of what one board member called concerns for the safety of “several” male students who wear dresses and wigs to school. The Suffolk Board of Education plans to take up the issue at a meeting Thursday night, amid [...]

This is part of the Youth Rights 101 series. Please check out Youth Rights 101: Introduction for the rest of the series and more information. Does youth rights mean thinking children and adults are the same? No. Obviously there are physical, developmental, and other differences between children and adults. There are also plenty of such [...]

This is part of the Youth Rights 101 series. Please check out Youth Rights 101: Introduction for the rest of the series and more information. What IS Youth Rights anyway? Youth rights is a very broad term referring to the civil rights and freedoms of young people. This may include specific rights and liberties such [...]

02/8/2012 Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-lukianoff/arizona-state-senate-to-c_b_1260291.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email%2BNotifications   In what has to be the most hilariously unconstitutional piece of legislation that I’ve seen in quite some time, senators in the Arizona state legislature have introduced a bill that would require all educational institutions in the state — including state universities — to suspend or fire professors who say [...]

Welcome to Youth Rights 101! The words “youth rights” mean a lot of different things to different people. New people to our cause who may have only talked to a few people or seen some articles may not quite see the underlying philosophy that holds it all together. So here I’m putting together a collection [...]

mndaily.com 2012 / 02 / 07 http://www.mndaily.com/2012/02/07/let-high-schoolers-vote-age-14   Rep. Phyllis Kahn has often been criticized for her efforts to lower Minnesota’s voting age. Mike Griffin, her challenger in tonight’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor caucus, calls the issue “dead on arrival.” But expanding the franchise to younger people is more politically viable than most people realize and it’s a [...]

February 6, 2012. Canadian Medical Association Journal http://www.sciencenewsline.com/psychology/2012020618100005.html An analysis of research on physical punishment of children over the past 20 years indicates that such punishment is potentially harmful to their long-term development, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Over the past 20 years, a growing body of research clearly indicates that [...]

Two months ago, NYRA petitioned against Obama’s Health and Human Services Agency discriminating against teenagers trying to get emergency contraceptives. It’s great to see the administration now taking a position for college students, at least, enjoying equal access to birth control. Beginning in 2013, most health plans will be required to cover contraceptives, including the [...]

February 1, 2012 MariAn Gail Brown Connecticut Post http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/MariAn-Gail-Brown-Curfew-a-well-intentioned-bad-2883095.php Inside Evolution Tattoos in downtown Bridgeport, there are samples of hundreds of possible designs for a customer, all neatly arranged in plastic protective sleeves to keep them from getting damaged. Too bad there are no such containers we can put our kids in to keep them [...]