Huh? --- I´m wondering if this one might be specific to a location or culture? As far as I can tell, at least here in the USA, "young people" and "youths" both refer only to people´s age and neither has a negative connotation - but I could be mistaken. I´ve just never seen "youths" used in a necessarily negative way here, except when used with a qualifier such as "drug addicted youths" or "criminal youths" etc.

Source author: Christian Peter Clay Mendoza cclay@sre.gob.mx