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Youth in Cambodia (under age thirty) make up 68% of Cambodia's 14,805,000 people.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://data.un.org/CountryProfile.aspx?crName=Cambodia#Social )〕 Twenty-six percent of Cambodians are between the ages of 14 and 30. All of the youth in the country are second and third generation offspring of survivors of the Khmer Rouge, a genocide that occurred from 1975-1979.〔 Roughly 20% of the population resides in its cities, mostly in Phnom Penh, the capitol.〔 ==Childhood to adolescence== A Cambodian child may be nursed until he or she is between two and four years of age. Up to the age of three or four, the child is given considerable physical affection and freedom, and there is little corporal punishment conducted in Cambodia. Children around five years of age also may be expected to help look after younger siblings and help with tasks around the home. Children's games emphasize socialization or skill rather than winning and losing.〔Federal Research Division. Russell R. Ross, ed. "Families". (''Cambodia: A Country Study.'' ) Research completed December 1987. ''This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.''〕 By the time they reach the age of seven or eight, they are familiar with the society's norms of politeness, obedience, and respect toward their elders and toward Buddhist monks. The father at this time begins his permanent retreat into a relatively remote, authoritarian role. By age ten, a girl is expected to help her mother in basic household tasks; a boy knows how to care for the family's livestock and can do farm work under the supervision of older males.〔 Formerly, and still in some rural areas, a ceremony marked the entrance of a girl into puberty. Upon the onset of menstruation, a girl would participate in a ritual called ''chol mlup'' (entering the shadow). Certain foods were taboo at this time, and she would be isolated from her family for a period of a few days to six months. After the period of seclusion, she was considered marriageable.〔 In pre-communist days, parents exerted complete authority over their children until the children were married, and the parents continued to maintain some control well into the marriage. Men and women are usually married by the age of 25 and 23, respectfully.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/indwm/ )〕 Age difference are strictly recognized, and form the structure for dynamics among different age groups. The proper polite vocabulary was used in the pre-communist period, and special generational terms for "you" continued to be used in the late 1980s. Younger speakers had to show respect to older people, including siblings, even if their ages differed by only a few minutes.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Youth in Cambodia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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