NYRA Supports Choose To Rally

NYRA Supports Choose To Rally

NYRA supports Choose To Rally, a movement to give Floridians back their abortion rights. Abortion is currently restricted to six weeks in the state. This constitutes a near-total ban on the procedure. Abortion is restricted in many states across the country to minors under 18 without parental consent, and states like Florida that seek to…

Solving the Problem of Youth Suicide: Toward a World Worth Living In

Solving the Problem of Youth Suicide: Toward a World Worth Living In

Reposted from Free Youth Now with permission from the author. Youth mental health is a public health crisis. Reports have found that teen suicides are increasing at an alarming pace, outstripping all other age groups. Suicide death rates among young people have increased rapidly in the past decade – becoming the second-most common cause of death…

NYRA-Twin Cities: Going Strong!

NYRA-Twin Cities: Going Strong!

NYRA-Twin Cities has been in operation for several years now. Amy O’Connell, President, has been leading the group for almost half a decade. Amy’s passion for youth rights came from her own experience dealing with adults. She was largely bullied in middle school and found that adults made the problem worse. She became involved in…

The Incentive to Be Sick:  Why many young people play along with diagnosis culture

The Incentive to Be Sick: Why many young people play along with diagnosis culture

  In his book, Teen 2.0, psychologist Robert Epstein gives an account of the medical profession’s complicity in the movement to marginalize young people: “In short, my own colleagues have long played and continue to play a leading role in the maintenance of the artificial extension of childhood. They have pathologized socially induced behavior and…

Speak Out on Corporal Punishment

Speak Out on Corporal Punishment

Can’t attend the upcoming rally in Washington, DC against corporal punishment in our schools? You can still share your views. During the second day of the event, NYRA Executive Director Bill Bystricky will join other activists in reading comments submitted from across America. If you have a personal experience with corporal punishment in school, send…