Show Youths Need More Jobs By ALISON GODDARD i Many adults-concerned with the idleness and restlessness of today's youth-tend to hold young people wholly More to according to one youth a perplexing generation a lack of job opportunities and poor vocational preparation by the AND the majority of adults in this says Eli director of the National Committee on Employment of to reject young people because they don't like the way they or their attitudes As a they little for sometimes fearing often being The aren't know what these reactions are and respond Cohen points HE should not stress these differences and limitations to the degree that they lose sight of the special needs and problems of the One confronting Cohen is the fact that there just aren't enough job opportunities to go although many young people have the necessary ability and are capable of LAWS NOT THE PROBLEM Some he believe the child labor and minimum wage laws prevent youngsters from not the age nor the sum that has to je we hall V good many more jobs for the lk million unemployed adults we'd have no problem getting young people employed as LOWERING the basic legal Cohen would only put youngsters in competition for work with And creating jobs for the young at the expense of adults-who are heads of families-he not the way to deal with the youth PARENTS CAN HELP In to the limited job today's youngsters have little preparation for the world of the specialist points CHORES around the house once helped youngsters develop as but our mechanized world provides few such opportunities Parents can Cohen by exposing their children-when they're fairly young-to formation about jobs and careers so they can begin to recognize what occupations and what people do at HE that parents avoid the twin pitfalls of either trying to re-live their occupational aspirations through of their pre- mature vocational Parents who seek to substitute their own drives can confuse and be destructive to their he youngster has to feel his own way in making his own vocational DESCRIBING the youth employment situation as and Cohen could take a major step forward in resolving our youth if somehow we could get adults to think and feel differently about the The National Committee on Employment of Youth is a non-governmental organization whose ongoing aims include opportunity for youth and protection of |