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:
“The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)