Youth Rights Stuff

Here's a list of all sorts of things related to youth rights. It's not a list of ideas we endorse; our only official stance is on the voting age. Neither do these people and groups necessarily endorse us. However, if you're interested in Voting Youth, you'll probably like a lot of the stuff on this list.

If you know something that could be added, send an email to general@votingyouth.org.

Academic Papers

• "Children's Rights, Oppression, and Liberation" by Samantha Godwin (2011)

• "Two Arguments for Child Enfranchisement" by Joanne Lau (2012)

• "Against Parental Rights" by Samantha Godwin (2015)

• "Why Children Should Be Allowed to Vote" by Maura Priest (penultimate draft 2018)

• "Children's Capacities and Paternalism" by Samantha Godwin (2020)

Books

• The Dialectic of Sex: The Case For Feminist Revolution by Shulamith Firestone (1970) (chapter four, "Down with Childhood")

• Escape From Childhood: The Needs and Rights of Children by John Holt (1974)

• Birthrights by Richard Farson (1974)

• Equal Rights for Children by Howard Cohen (1980)

• The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn (1991)

• Teen 2.0 by Robert Epstein (2010)

• Children’s Rights: Today’s Global Challenge by John Wall (2016)

Blogs

• Eight Mine Fortress (Katrina Moncure)

• Nik Noble (Nik Noble)

• Freedom to Learn (Peter Gray)

• The Youth Rights Blog (Kathleen O'Neal)

Organizations

• Children's Voting Colloquium

• National Youth Rights Association (NYRA)

• Alliance For Self-Directed Education