Child protection or youth protection may refer to:
- Child protection
- Aboriginal child protection
- Laws
- Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, a 2006 United States law that created the national sex offender registry
- Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act, a 1988 United States law concerning record-keeping requirements for sexually explicit materials
- Child Protection Registry Acts, state laws creating children's do not call registries
- Child Online Protection Act, a 1998 law restricting what information online entities can collect about children
- Government agencies
- Child Protective Services, US government agencies charged with child protection
- Ministry of Youth Protection and Rehabilitation (Quebec)
- Organizations
- Office of Child and Youth Protection, the Catholic church's child protection organization
- Youth Protection program (Boy Scouts of America)
Famous quotes containing the words youth and/or protection:
“I loathe that I did love,
In youth that I thought sweet;”
—Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)
“The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father’s advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)