{"id":6530,"date":"2025-07-14T17:24:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T23:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juventudes.mx\/editorial\/juventud-que-cuida-y-transforma-una-generacion-con-voz-y-propuestas\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T17:49:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T23:49:33","slug":"juventud-que-cuida-y-transforma-una-generacion-con-voz-y-propuestas","status":"publish","type":"editorial","link":"https:\/\/juventudes.mx\/en\/editorial\/juventud-que-cuida-y-transforma-una-generacion-con-voz-y-propuestas\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth that cares and transforms: a generation with a voice and proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Elio Villase\u00f1or G.<\/strong>
Director General of Citizen Initiative for <\/strong>
the Promotion of the Culture of Dialogue, AC<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cCaring for others and the environment <\/em>
It is the highest expression of humanity<\/em>\u201d
\u2014 Leonardo Boff<\/p>\n

The lives of young people today are marked by uncertainty, institutional passivity, and constant fear of global threats such as war.<\/p>\n

However, in the face of this complex scenario, young people have recognized their strength and used it to face everyday challenges.<\/p>\n

One of these challenges, which remains largely invisible, is their role in care systems within the family environment.<\/p>\n

Amidst multiple adversities, many young people have had to find the courage to take on responsibilities that traditionally go unrecognized, while simultaneously trying to build their own life plans.<\/p>\n

They have had to mature through force, developing skills to care for others without giving up their own aspirations.<\/p>\n

These efforts, far from being confined to the private sphere, are beginning to be shared on social media and in collective spaces, giving visibility to a long-ignored reality.<\/p>\n

In this context, the Youth in Care Forum, held on June 20, represented a milestone in the articulation of youth voices around the construction of an inclusive and equitable Care System in Mexico City.<\/p>\n

The forum highlighted the urgent need to fully integrate youth into the design and development of this system, so that it responds to their realities and aspirations.<\/p>\n

The young participants' interventions reflected not only a critical awareness of the structural inequalities they face, but also an active willingness to influence social transformation based on their experience as caregivers, those cared for, and promoters of self-care.<\/p>\n

From this experience, young people recognize care as a human right and promote its fair redistribution between genders and generations.<\/p>\n

Among the emerging alternatives, the proposal to create care cooperatives stands out, focused on developing skills, generating decent employment, and revaluing domestic tasks, which have historically been neglected.<\/p>\n

Young people not only raised their voices to demand legal recognition of care work, but also proposed concrete solutions that dignify this essential system for life.<\/p>\n

Youth participation portrayed with sensitivity and force the transformative role of their generation.<\/p>\n

Despite the institutional precariousness and risks that define their present, young people do not remain in a state of complaint or passive waiting.<\/p>\n

They don't wait for answers: they act, organize, and build alternatives through practice and solidarity.<\/p>\n

Their action is not merely reactive or individual. It is collective, creative, and profoundly political.<\/p>\n

Today, more than ever, it is urgent to listen to and recognize this generation, which not only demands to be heard, but also to be recognized as a central player in any social justice agenda, with clear and viable proposals to transform the care system into a more just, equitable, and humane network.<\/p>\n

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