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Originally Posted by Victoria
Again, off topic, but your point applies to a lot of things. Where I live there’s a chronic lack of specialized services for young people. Instead, there’s usually an amorphous “children services”. Yet we never combine all programs that serve adults under a single “adult services” umbrella.
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And again: "Young" and "Adult" are two different things to me. There's a very small overlap where youth and adult can be used to describe a person. And I've found that today's publishing YA label doesn't really even target that overlap. It targets children, and it targets adults who enjoy reading things that are labeled as YA. It exists because people like the books that get the label. It's like a snake eating its own tail. It has almost no meaning whatsoever any more.