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  • Juvenoia, a term usually credited to sociologist David Finkelhor, refers to the fear of juveniles by older adults. Juvenoia is manifest in a multitude of ways, including the belief that today’s youth are worse behaved than ever before, despite much evidence to the contrary.

    What’s Really Wrong With Young People Today: Juvenoia Chris Ferguson 2014

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  • scarequotes commented on the word juvenoia

    https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/Modern-Parenthood/2013/0723/Juvenoia-The-kids-are-all-right-even-on-the-Internet

    Then, a few years ago, when sociology professor David Finkelhor at the University of New Hampshire gave his milestone talk, “The Internet, Youth Deviance & the Problem of Juvenoia,” I heard him offer the most plausible reason I’d heard or seen yet for what he called this “juvenoia” – “the exaggerated fear about the influence of social change on youth” – that had developed around children’s seemingly unprecedented and uncontrollable exposure to a diversity of values and influences not our own.

    May 3, 2020