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Youth
* All youth experience some degree of risk as they progress from childhood to adult life
  - risk as they progress from childhood to adulthood
* Many youth believe that infected persons reveal outward evidence of their condition.
* Many youth have a constellation of risk factors, some of which arise in the home
  - older siblings who are gang members
  - parents who both work
  - youths underreport deviant behavior, such as substance abuse
* Most youth begin to drink in adolescence.
* Some youth drink more often and more heavily than others.
* are concerned with youth unemployment and the lack of meaningful work
  - different physically and emotionally from both children and adults
  - fundamental actors for change
  - half of the world's population
  - in a transition from childhood to adulthood
  - legally free to have intercourse after they reach the age of consent
  - producers of culture as well as consumers of culture
* are the builders of nations, the pioneers on whom the progress of all humanity depends
  - main victims of irresponsible behavior
  - one sector of the society that is most computer literate
  - three times more likely than adults to be victims of violence
* believe that most adults smoke and that it is therefore a symbol of adulthood.
* build self-confidence, gain personal achievement, and learn how to work with others.
* can begin to encounter challenges related to low self esteem at an early age
  - make a significant contribution to fighting hunger and malnutrition around the world
* continue to be involved as both perpetrators and victims of violence
  - develop until they grow into adults
* deer, dove and waterfowl hunts cater to the needs of young hunters and their adult chaperones.
* have multiple ways of knowing and expression
  - the highest unemployment rate of any age group in the country
* is also highly over-rated as a stage in life
  - the lifeblood of an industry
  - always conformist, more so than childhood or middle age
  - beauty, and beauty is youth
* is characterized by great self-absorption
  - strong passions, immaturity, and opportunity
  - intrinsic to their identity
  - on the vanguard of fashion, music, literature and popular culture
  - one of the issues that the international community is facing nowadays
  - synonymous with newness, hope, promise, energy and dynamism
  - time periods
  - when the hyperplesia and dysplesias show up
* learn different cultures, languages, and societies by living in specific countries.
* live in conditions of low income both due to family poverty and personal situations.
* make intergenerational connections with all ages- adults and children alike.
* often start by stealing food or clothing.
* primarily run away from home due to life crises that involve abuse and maltreatment.
* range in age from early to late adolescence.
* refuges are a relatively new form of homeless shelters.
* start dipping and chewing at very young ages.
* use inhalants while alone or in groups.

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Black youth
* are also much more likely to end up in prisons with adult offenders
  - generally more likely to be victims of violent crime
  - seven times as likely to be held in a public detention facility as white youths
* like to party in their cars and tend to do it late at night.

Homeless youth
* Many homeless youth have no training or means of support, and rely on prostitution for survival.
* Most homeless youth are unemployed.
* are usually on the streets because of sexual or physical abuse at home.
* have high rates of serious depression.

Indian youth
* are the golden future of India and the whole world.
* is, after all, Indian youth.
* offer other reasons for turning to crime, alcohol and drugs.

Street youth
* are a highly transient and difficult to reach population.
* have higher rates of attention deficit disorder and other learning difficulties.