Curlie

Youth

Somewhere between childhood and maturity is a period of being young. There are several issues and points of view unique to this age. The Curlie contains several categories within the topical categories with information for this group. This category is a collection of them, as well as categories for children, kids, teens, and other terms used to define people who haven't reached maturity.

When submitting to the categories within, please keep in mind that Society: People: Generations_and_Age_Groups: Youth will only list sites for and about young people.

Sites about young people should be submitted to the appropriate topical directory tree. Hopefully you will find that category pointed to within this category.

Sites for young people should be considered for the Kids and Teens directory.

There will be instances where a site is appropriate for more than one of these options.

By Region

This category holds links to the various Children, Teens, and Youth categories within the Regional branch of the Open Directory.

Please do not submit sites directly to this category. Go the category for the region your site serves. If your site is international in content, it will be better placed in a topical category.

Education

This category points to educational options and issues most relevant to young people.

Educational sites should not be submitted to this category. Please find the most appropriate category within Reference: Education.

Family

This category points to other categories within the Open Directory pertaining to the family issues of young people.

Only sites containing broad topics about youth family issues will be considered for this category. For sites focused on a specific topic, please submit to the most appropriate category contained within.

Health

This category is used to point to categories within the Open Directory that are for children and youth health related issues.

Sites should not be submitted tot his category, unless they are broad in content and focus more on society than health. Please submit to the most appropriate category within Health.

History

Deals with the history and understanding of childhood and youth, including perceptions and how they have changed.

Please submit sites specific to historical understanding of the time of childhood and youth.

Holidays

Categories within Society: Holidays that focus on observing occasions with children and teenagers.

Sites should not be submitted to this category. Please find the most appropriate category within Society: Holidays and/or Kids and Teens: People and Society: Holidays and Celebrations to submit your site.

Literature

This category points to other categories within the Open Directory containing information for, writings for, and writings of young people.

Unless your site is about cultural issues involved in youth literature, it will most likely not be acceptable for this category. Please submit to the most appropriate category within, or within Arts .

Online Communities

Online Communities are sites where people with similar interests can communicate with each other, learn, and contribute. Contribution is the defining factor of an online community.

No site is guaranteed placement in the Open Directory. Any site still under construction, submitted to multiple inappropriate categories, using multiple URLs for multiple submissions, or consisting primarily of affiliate links to products will be deleted.

Submissions to this category should be chats and forums for kids only. Communities for children and teenagers should be submitted to Society: People: Youth: Online Communities.

Organizations

Social, educational, and advocacy groups for young people.

If your organization has its own category, please submit to that category.

Political

This category serves to point to categories within Society: Politics containing sites on youth political groups and information.

Submissions acceptable for this category will focus on young people involved in politics in general. If your site is focused on a particular party, your site will be more appropriately placed in Society: Politics.

Religious

This category serves to point to the various categories within Society: Religion_and_Spirituality containing sites for and about children, teens, and youth.

Submissions appropriate to this category will be sites focused on religious and spiritual young people. If your site is specific to a particular practice, please submit to the appropriate category within Society: Religion_and_Spirituality.

Shopping

This category points to categories within Shopping that list sites for children and education.

Submissions should not be made to this category.

Sites offering a product should be submitted to the appropriate category within Shopping.

Sites containing consumer information of children''s products should be submitted to Home: Consumer Information: Home and Family: Children.

Streetkids

To be listed in this category, sites should at least in part be focused on streetkids or street children and contain information about street children, information about programs working with street children or both. There are separate categories in the directory for programs relating to child poverty, orphans and orphanages, child soldiers, child abuse, etc. Street children, by my definition, are children who live in the streets without any adult care or supervision. Since these number about 100 million there is not really much point in splitting hairs about "children of the street" "children in the street" "community children" "working children" If a submitted site relates to street children it will inevitably deal with some orphans, some working children, abused children, etc., but a site about orphans or an orphanage that has no direct reference to street children and no program focused on street children, does not qualify for inclusion in this category and should be submitted to the Orphans and Orphanages category. Similarly with sites whose main concern is child poverty. Unless there is a distinct component focused on street children the site should be submitted to the child poverty category. There are many poor children who are not street children. Street children have problems in common that are specific to their circumstances and work with street children has distinctive characteristics and challenges. This strict definition should not be interpreted as derogatory to sites and programs that are thereby excluded. It simply serves to make this category meaningful.

Support Groups

Groups that meet for support and socializing focusing on children, teenagers, and young adults.

Please only submit sites with information or representing groups that meet, for the purpose of offering and recieving support and advice.

For online-only "groups" see Society/People/Youth/Online_Communities/

Youth Rights

Submit sites concerning issues which "are perceived to fall outside of nations'' powers to deal with effectively alone."

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