In 48 states, the cost of center-based child care for a four-year-old is greater than tuition at a four-year public college
- One in six children in the United States continues to live in poverty. One in eight � 9.3 million � children have no health insurance.
- The national crime rate has dropped nearly 25 percent since 1993, but more than one-quarter of violent crime victims known to police in the U.S. are juveniles.
- Youths ages 16 to 19 currently experience overall violence, including rape and general assault, at higher rates than people in all other age categories.
- Two-thirds of youths in the juvenile justice system have one or more diagnosable mental health disorders. Girls are the fastest growing segment of the juvenile justice population: The arrest rate for females under age 18 increased more than 14 percent between 1993 and 2002, while the rate for males
under age 18 decreased. - More than six million school-age children are left alone after school without supervision. The average child watches 28 hours of television a week and by age 18 will have seen more than 200,000 acts of violence and 16,000 simulated murders depicted on the TV screen.
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Murders yes, who cares, but they will never hear the word "shit" on television, thank God.
