The Role of the State in Youth Matters: Protection, Development and Attention

Abstract

This work had as its main objective performing an analysis of the role of State in youth matters, both in the Mexican as in the Tabasquean contexts. To achieve it, this study employed a documentary methodology with social and demographic statistics as well as a review of scientific and judicial literature on youth with a predominantly social approach. These sources were contrasted and the study found that State has intervened in protection trough laws, in development with plans, and in attention through youth matters institutions. Their labour has not been enough to guarantee wellness among this population. The main conclusion of this text was that, more than vulnerable, youth is being vulnerated given how, despite being the population more actively seeking for and compromise with their health and own life, achieving it highly depends on others actions, i.e., the decision of youths is not enough for improving their situation because of a complex social reality that conditions their well-being, in which State is involved.