### people:

Young people
* All young people have the capacity to develop and transform as they move toward positive adulthood.
* Many young people are also involved in criminal gangs.
* Many young people believe myths about sexual violence and rape
  - that carrying a gun is essential to daily survival in today's world
  - they are immortal
  - die of old age
  - do indeed struggle with problems of substance abuse, hopelessness, or depression
  - establish patterns of sexual behavior in their teens
* Many young people experience age discrimination in the housing market
  - difficulties with eating and food at some time in their lives
  - high levels of stress
* Many young people feel considerable peer pressure to have sex
  - that their neighborhoods are dangerous and carry guns out of fear
  - get money from their parents and have little or no concept of personal finance
  - have misconceptions concerning the nature of healthy relationships
* Many young people lie about their alcohol and drug use
  - alcohol and other drug use
* Many young people live in areas with high levels of unemployment
  - families where the use of alcohol part of normal life
  - own guns themselves or have access to guns with parental permission
  - practice unhealthy nutrition and sedentary lifestyles
  - say that drinking alcohol is part of growing up
  - start dating as they move through puberty and the teen years
  - suffer from malnutrition
* Many young people think smokeless tobacco is safer than smoking cigarettes
  - they can quit when they re older
  - use drugs simply because their friends do
  - worry about their weight
* Most young people are far better informed than their parents about drug abuse
  - unwilling to live a celibate life
  - drink alcohol without experiencing any serious harm
  - feel strongly about issues which they believe are unfair in their lives
* Most young people get spots around puberty
  - through their adolescent years without major problems
  - grow up with no knowledge of native plants and animals
* Most young people have a blood pressure reading of one hundred thirty over eighty or less
  - bikes rather than cars
  - friendship networks, groups and gangs
  - hold expectations for their future loves, livelihoods, and living situations
  - identify with sports and sports stars
  - live in environments
  - say that they'd like to quit smoking
  - see occasional drug use in the same way as alcohol - as part of normal life
  - survive adolescence without major problems
* Some young people are more vulnerable to developing vocal nodules and vocal strain than others
  - social smokers, lighting up only at parties or when they go out
  - become prostitutes in order to make money
* Some young people believe growing up means abandoning their ideals
  - that marijuana use leads to more dangerous illegal drugs
  - choose lifestyles of nonconformity simply to be different
  - die after onsets
  - drop out of school to have their babies
  - get their hair spiked or shaved
  - go by bicycle or by motorbike
* Some young people have deep convictions about dancing
  - great difficulty in managing their relationships with peers and family
  - move into places on their own or move in to share with others
  - resent having to show proof of age
  - see hats as a sign of personal growth
* Some young people use alcohol and other drugs to try and reduce stress in their lives
  - to try to blot out problems they are having
* account for the majority of new users of many substances.
* achieve desirable outcomes when they are involved in positive social networks.
* adopt their prejudices at an early age.
* are a high-risk group for anorexia and bulimia
  - vital part of our families and society
* are also at great risk for head injuries
  - likely to have a different perception of living in an area than older people
  - the victims of crime and worry about becoming a victim of crime
* are at a special age between young children and adults
  - high risk of being victimized and of participating in violence
  - increased risk of causing a tragedy for themselves and others
  - much higher risk from impaired driving than the general population
  - particular risk for becoming sedentary as they grow older
  - better at sex than older people
  - creators as well as consumers of literary works
  - different from adults and so are young women from young men
  - disproportionately the victims of crime as well as the offenders
  - especially encouraged to donate blood and platelets
* are especially vulnerable to heroin because they often experiment with drugs
  - skin damage that can result in melanoma years later
* are even less likely to vote than any other age group
  - more directly affected by economic and social changes than adults
  - far more likely than adults to greatly over-estimate the prevalence of smoking
  - highly susceptible to pornography
  - less likely even to be registered to vote than any other age group
* are less likely to vote than any other age group
  - located in schools
* are more 'participatory' than older people
  - likely to learn about negative than positive aspects of aging
  - most concerned about education, crime, violence and the environment
  - much more likely to be unemployed than older people
  - now more involved in crime, and drug abuse has become more common
  - often concerned with who they are, how they are seen and what they believe in
* are often very mature for their age
  - sensitive to the needs and problems of their peers
  - over-represented in motor vehicle crash statistics compared to adults
* are particularly at risk of unemployment
  - sensitive to issues of personal privacy
  - responsible for a large proportion of crime
  - sensitive to perceived signals that smoking is the norm
  - susceptible to new attacks by older virus strains
* are the hope of improving the ecological environment of the world
  - ones who are going to write stories and features
  - traditionally unsuccessful when they try to quit smoking
  - violent and commit violent crimes
* become gang members at the average age of twelve
  - less dependent on parents and more involved with peers
* believe in fairness and equality and are commited to social justice.
* burn vast quantities of calories, in part to provide for growth.
* buy more frequently than most older people.
* can be millionaires before they even hit their twenties
  - help ward off osteoporosis by building strong bones today
  - prematurely age, too
  - reproduce at the end of puberty
* care about their appearance.
* change partners frequently before settling into monogamous relationships.
* come off twice as badly as older people in terms of unemployment.
* commit the majority of crimes.
* consume far more soft drinks and sugarless chewing gum than the adult population.
* continue to account for a large number of both homicide victims and offenders
  - marry, but many couples delay until they are older
* define success in very different terms than their parents or grandparents.
* depend on their parents for shelter, and for financial and emotional support.
* die everyday and for a variety of reasons.
* do commit large numbers of crime
  - like to read because they like the Internet, and it is essentially a written medium
* do, however, see benefits to cloning plants and animals.
* drink for a variety of reasons, including to look more grown-up
  - less often than adults, but when they drink, they tend to drink in large amounts
  - to get drunk
* entering the workforce have much different attitudes about work.
* exercise less and less when they get into their teens.
* experience the highest rates of violent crime of any age group.
* experiment with sex, as with other things in their lives.
* explore their sexuality as a natural process of achieving sexual maturity.
* face issues of self esteem and child abuse.
* fight, tend the wounded, and die.
* gain understanding and empathy through active service to others.
* get their values and attitudes from their parents and their culture.
* harm themselves and wreck their lives through substance abuse.
* have a high frequency of warts
  - responsibility to the people who share their lives
  - right to health care and accurate information about sex
  - an entirely different form of dress to express their personalities
  - basic needs critical to survival and healthy development
  - choices about the level of intimacy in relationships
  - dignity and worth as human beings
  - immature immune systems that are less able to fight off infection
* have less freedom of speech
  - of a sense that they have a duty to vote than any other age group
  - little difficulty recognizing or believing that animals have feelings
  - more education, better physical health, more possessions and leisure
  - much more melatonin in their body than older people
  - no voice, people of color have no voice, women have no voice
* have the highest rate of personal crime victimisation
  - rates of signs suggesting alcohol dependence
  - suicide rate
  - lowest voter turnout of any population group
  - potential to live longer than any previous generation
  - responsibility to protect their sexual health
  - right to participate at every level of society
  - to study and work, but they are at the age of physical growth
  - twice as many accidents in their first year of work than adults do
* hunger for spiritual growth as much as they do for sexual growth.
* identify social success mainly with money and complete independence from society.
* increase their personal resources and improve their self-identity.
* know that risky behaviours can have negative effects on their health.
* learn about sexual expression nearly everywhere they turn in society
  - that risk and initial failure are part of achievement and success
* learn to play, to participate and to take responsibility
  - ride horses Many young people enjoy riding horses
* like to get scared
  - go places and do things
* live in a minority world
  - and participate in communities
* make up half the forty million unemployed in the developed world as a whole.
* mature at different rates, girls tend to develop earlier than boys.
* place high value on promoting equality and reducing hunger and poverty.
* rank parents as the preferred source of information about sex and health.
* realise that their future consists of poverty, uncertainty and fear.
* receiving chemotherapy generally have a lower white cell count than normal.
* refuse to marry and have children.
* s thinking on illicit drugs tends to change with time and age.
* save as they establish households and purchase durable goods.
* spend more waking hours in school than any other single place.
* start using technology as a means to learn as well as research information.
* struggling with homosexuality often feel they have nowhere to turn.
* suffer high victimization rates for murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
* teach their peers how to resist drugs, alcohol, tobacco and sexual pressures.
* tend to absorb calcium better than older people
  - consider that it's old people who die
  - marry people they meet in the same informal social circles
  - read more than older people do
  - underestimate the addictiveness of nicotine
* thrive when they are shown respect.
* turn to religion because of pent-up sexual anxiety and tension.
* use their bodies to express their cultural creativity and the pleasure of being young.
* view managing money as a symbol of maturity and independence.
* vote less than any other age group.
* wish to be older, and older people wish to be younger.
* work hard to earn their degrees.
+ Clothing
  * For many people, clothing is a status symbol. It also helps people project an image. Often, clothing is a form of self expression. Adults in different social or work situations present different views of themselves by the clothes they wear. Young people have an entirely different form of dress to express their personalities. Often people will simply follow popular fashion styles so that they will fit in. Clothing is far more than just a means to protect our bodies.
+ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Missions: Mormonism
  * Young people are encouraged to go on missions when they get old enough. Before an August 2012 change in church policy, men had to be 18 in most countries, and women throughout the world 21, before they could go on missions. More men go on missions than women do. The Church tells them where they need to go. Missionaries will go to people who live near them and teach them about the Church, and baptize people who want to join the Church. They also help people around them, even if these people are not in the Church.
+ Turkey, Culture, Language: European Union candidate states
  * Many young people can also speak English.