YouthFacts seeks to debunk the barrage of modern mistruths about youth, restore a climate of fairness and integrity when discussing youth issues, advance verifiable and evidence-based information to better inform youth policy, enhance the integration of youth into democratic and multi-cultural citizenship, and build a culture that values and trusts its young people.

We have grown increasingly alarmed at the inability or refusal of aging America to respond rationally to clear, dramatic generational changes in crime, violence, drug abuse, mortality, AIDS, imprisonment, and social and political attitudes over the last 30 to 40 years.

The future of our diverse society demands more factual, alternative information and discussion than today's stifling consensus.

Latest Updates

• New book by YouthFacts author challenges rampant myths
• In memory of Andrea Zojourner, generous benefactor and friend (1949-2008)
• FREE: Dynamic factual new book on California youth
• Why are books on teens today so atrocious?

Student Postings on Youth Issues

Outstanding student journalism. A major YouthFacts frustration is that youths faill to stand up for themselves, many preferring either to hide their real lives until they age or to ally with adults against their peers. That's why Redwood High School's (Marin County, California) sophisticated Redwood Bark student newspaper series of editorials on targeting teens" and youth rights is so refreshing, as well as a model for the skepticism and research the mainstream and alternative media should be following, but aren't.