Look. There's no civil rights issue here. Or any issue at all. What happens is that starting at about 12-14 the younguns are starting to want to become more and more independent. Their parents, of course, don't want to let them. Both of those things are forces of nature.
So they struggle. Usually, the youngun wins out at a later age like 18-20, but sometimes they win out earlier. Sometimes the parents are negligent and they let a young kid run around way before he should. Sometimes they're abusive and they don't allow a young person his or her basic independence long after they should get it. But this sort of struggle, to some degree, exists in every family. It is natural.
Parents are protective of their offspring, and their offspring, once they start to exit childhood, start chafing at the restraints. The resulting struggle is not news-worthy, really. Unless someone gets creative.