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It's doubly galling that children were so much a part of the revolutionary rhetoric and yet everything we did flew in the face of the notion that children were meant to be prized.1 (Diarmaid Ferriter, Irish Times, 28 May 2010)
What does ‘youth’ mean? At the outset of this study we were confronted by this seminal question. A senior government official on our research advisory committee suggested to us that we should use the chronological definition contained in the Irish Youth Work Act 2001. On the face of it, this was good advice. But an examination of the Youth Work Act 2001 reveals more than one chronological definition. At the outset, the Youth Work Act 2001 (Section 2) defines youth very broadly: ‘young person means a person who has not attained the age of 25’. But subsequently the Youth Work Act 2001 (Section 8) refers to youth work as being provided for ‘persons who have attained the age of 10 years but not 21 years’. Childhood refers to all citizens under the age of 18 years, who are not entitled to civil or political rights but do have a social right to care and protection. According to the legal principle, parens patriae, the State is the higher or ultimate parent of the child. The publication of the Ryan Report in 2009 showed how little had been done to vindicate that right.
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