Gabriela Rodríguez*: Adolescence: Critical stage!

Every person would have to exercise the right to live full adolescence, assume it as a universal right. A strategic stage created in the nineteenth century and linked to the condition of being a student. Being a teenager is to be a student, a social luxury for those families whose income allows them to keep their offspring for more years, as well as delay the age of their entry to paid work, marriage, motherhood and paternity. Episode that usually plays adolescents in subordination against adults, with discrimination features that underline social inequalities and gender, excludes those who live in precarious conditions or are women. As soon as Mexican adolescents and young people reached the same levels of schooling as adolescents and young people, with the exception of indigenous people.

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