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Contents 1 Recent edits 2 Purpose of this article 3 Old commentary 3.1 Middle aged 4 Merger of Young person

[edit] Recent edits

The list of youth publications and the inclusion of Template:Youth Empowerment are both completely relevant and purposeful on this page. I would proponent that most users who come to the page are completely interested in the topic of the template. Perhaps Template:Youth should be created, and Youth Empowerment could be a link on there.

and that the list of youth publications can be made more comprehensive to include publications by and for youth, even to the point of starting a new page. However, simply eliminating the presence of the that list from this page is not adequate. If you don't like what's on the list, add to it.

Matter of fact, maybe the list of youth publications should be a separate page, and included on Template:Youth. - Freechild 15:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Purpose of this article

I'm a bit confused about what the purpose of this article is. Seems like it should just be added to the "teenager" section of the adolescence article. --Fez2005 03:54, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I think this article should be merged with adolescence. Any other comments? —Gm1121983 16:24, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Disagree. Youth is an internationally recognized term that is commonly acknowledged popular vernacular. Adolescence is scientific jargon, and is rarely used outside of scientific fields. A google search for "youth" turns up about about 192,000,000 finds. Adolescence? 78,700,000. Youth wins. - Freechild 11:48, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Old commentary

This page says that youth is somewhere between 12 and 26. According to the website here [1], the category for children and youth is 0-21. I'm slightly over that. Gm1121983 19:51, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

The Teens Taking Flight program at Abilities in Motion is for teenagers and students at ages up to 21. According to this article, youth begins at 12 and ends at 26. You still fit in that frame. Mr. Conrad 23:44, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

The correct age group is 13-21, and it has been aged out to 24. See website here [2]. —Mariusz Zielinski 22:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Probably 25 or 26 is a good point to finish youth/late adolescence since most of the organizations and services for youth have a required age that ends somewhere between 22-26. And 25 is the proper age where the adult stage in biology starsm and with that age you have plenty of rights in all the countries.

Ah, that explains it. At 25, you've pretty much lived 1/3 of your life. —Gm1121983 00:21, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Now this article is telling us that youth is somewhere between 13 and 19, the teenage years. The article here tells us that "adolescence" ends at 19 or 20, which I would have to agree with. At 21, you're a full-grown adult (appropriately speaking). —Gm1121983 02:20, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Maybe 13-30 is the correct age group. That's what this article currently says, and after 30, your skin loses its elasticity. And after 30, you get closer to middle aged. 40 is middle aged. Cameron Diaz is over 30, and she has wrinkles, but she gets plastic surgery to look younger. —Mariusz Paul Zielinski 16:21, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree with 200.126.218.25 that youth ends at age 25. 25 is the beginning of middle age and 50 is the beginning of old age. 75 is the average life expectancy in humans. —Flatts 17:52, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Middle aged

So I guess 31 is middle aged? —Bill Conrad 16:20, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

After 20, your skin produces 1% less collagen each year. I'm 24, so my skin still has 96% collagen left. —Brian Michael Barbera 02:05, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

And Tretinoin is recommended for those who are over 25. See website here. —Bill Conrad 17:52, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

This entire conversation is moot, as the article clearly illustrates the age limits per attributable citations from reliable sources. - Freechild 20:20, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Youth is certainly not interchangable with teenagehood. The notion of a 'young man' certainly continues through to about 25.

The article really should be split into various sections citing completing ways of undestanding what 'youth' is. One would be teenagehood; another biological; another social- early explorative independece; andother artistic etc. Needs references to art, and texts etc. 81.179.114.114 23:04, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merger of Young person

It has been proposed that the article about Young person be merged with Youth. However, I would oppose this merger on the grounds that Young person, in New Zealand, at least, has a specific legal meaning. -- Cameron Dewe 10:25, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Oppose, b/c of Cameron Dewe's explanation. Besides, there are those in WP who would merge young person, youth, child, adolescent, snotnose, punk and kid all into one article, because they see each of these identities as a non-person. Who wants to support that? - Freechild 13:06, 30 May 2007 (UTC)