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| Adultism is a term, originating from co-counseling, used to
refer to the "oppression of young people through attitudinal,
cultural and systematic discrimination against children and
youth". It is also used to refer to any bias against young
people, and is distinguished from ageism—which is simply
prejudice on the grounds of age, not youth particularly. It is
seen in co-counseling as the basis for all other oppression and
discrimination in society, as well as for most psychological
problems. Adultism refers to "behaviors and attitudes that are
based on the assumption that adults are better than young
people, and entitled to act upon them without their agreement."
It is characterized by "disrespect towards the intelligence,
judgment, emotional life, leadership, or physical being of young
people."  Adults may sometimes assume a young person is
incapable of performing a task, doing it in t