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young peopleAdolescents and young people are engaged in expressing the social and sexual mores of those around them, even as many seek to throw off oppressive gender and sexual roles. The diversity of experience of adolescents is vast; often the only thing they may have in common is belonging to the same age group. The young people in these papers may be married or single, in school or out. Some are economic migrants, some are apprentices. Some have had children, others have had abortions. Some are not yet having sex, some enjoy their sexual lives, and some have experienced sexual abuse and coercion. The lives of the least advantaged, such as street children, AIDS orphans and young refugees, have little in common with the privileged lives of middle-class adolescents. Yet most young people have less information about sexual and reproductive health matters than they need and fewer rights. This collection of papers expresses the experiences of youth, especially in developing countries, and as often as possible through the voices of young people themselves. |
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