Adultification bias

Adultification bias is a form of racial prejudice where children of minority groups, such as African American girls, are treated as being more mature than they actually are by a reasonable social standard of development.

As such, African American girls have reported to be treated unfairly such as their true ages were disbelieved when they told authority figures like police officers, and facing consequences in school for misbehavior while white girls doing the same acts would have their young ages taken into account.[1]

See also

References
  1. Lockhart, B.P. "A new report shows how racism and bias deny black girls their childhoods". Vox.com. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
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