ABSTRACT
The young person is an object within his own family, since he must be controlled if the parents are to feel that they have done a good job. Dependency, frustration, helplessness, rage, a deep-seated suspicion of authority, a fear of vulnerability, a reliance on indirection, manipulation, concealment, and rigid psychological defenses are characteristic of most young people. Though the youth feels dependent on his parents, at least certain areas of his life are under his own control from infancy on. When the position of the young person in the community is examined, the true intensity of the hatred for young people as a class becomes clear, and the oppression of the young found in the institutions of the family and the school systems is concretized. Oppression is practiced on one level by economic leverage — both to reinforce dependency and to commercially exploit youth's needs.
