ephebiphobia

The effects of sexism are similarly reported to be amplified by ephebiphobia.

There may be many negative effects of adultism, including ephebiphobia and a growing generation gap.

Ephebiphobia and adultism have been identified as the factors preventing widespread recognition of youth voice throughout communities.

Ephebiphobia is the fear of youth.

"Ephebiphobia", or "fear of youth", is one of the most enduring phenomena in our society – and it's more prevalent than ever.

Other age-focused fears are ephebiphobia and gerontophobia.

Academics specifically acknowledge the force of ephebiphobia in the commercial sector, where this fear of youth has been extensively exploited for financial gain.

A number of observers have indicated the deliberate perpetuation of mass social ephebiphobia in order to elicit particular public and social responses.

Pedophobia (the fear of children) and ephebiphobia (the fear of youth) have been proposed as the antecedents to adultism.

The American Library Association has developed a resource collection for librarians specifically to combat the ephebiphobia by promoting customer service skills specific to youth.

By elevating the role of youth voice, the relationships formed by youth/adult partnerships are said to combat ephebiphobia and adultism.

"Ephebiphobia," The Freechild Project.

It is ostensibly an effort to combat pedophobia and ephebiphobia throughout society by promoting youth voice, youth empowerment and ultimately, intergenerational equity through youth/adult partnerships.

However, sociologist Mike Males has suggested that ephebiphobia does not analyze the problem deep enough, as the fear of adult stereotype of adolescence, or kourophobia, is the core challenge facing young people today.

Today, common usage occurs internationally by sociologists, government agencies, and youth advocacy organizations that define ephebiphobia as an abnormal or irrational and persistent fear and/or loathing of teenagers or adolescence.

- A Review of Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics, and America's Future by Lawrence Grossberg in Endeavours magazine that diagnoses cultural ephebiphobia in the U.S.

As it affects young people themselves, ephebiphobia has been recognized as a barrier towards successful academic achievement, a barrier to successful social intervention programs, and as an indicator of the ineptitude of many adults to be successful parents.

Other conditions of fear or aversion associated with age groups have their own names, particularly: paedophobia, the fear of infants and children; ephebiphobia, the fear of youth, sometimes also referred to as an irrational fear of adolescents or a prejudice against teenagers; and gerontophobia, the fear of elderly people.