Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

The outcome of this culture of discrimination is that young people are routinely denied the roles in society they can, should, and need to be occupying.

Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.

Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

The pattern of discrimination that allows this discrimination was set in the founding of the United States.

Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real.

Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.