No Nos For Mommy & Daddy

No! No's! For Mommy & Daddy

DOES THIS CHILD BELONG TO YOU?

2.5 million 12-to-17 year old children

    are users of marijuana, cocaine,
    heroine, Ecstasy, inhalants, illicit
    drugs, or non-medical prescription
    drugs (Office of Applied Statistics 2007)

2.7 million youth used alcohol for the

first time in the past year (Office of
Applied Statistics 2007)

76,240 active substance abuse

    treatment clients under the age of 18
    received outpatient treatment; 10,313
    active substance abuse treatment
    clients under the age of 18 received
    non-hospital residential treatment; and
    1,058 active substance abuse
    treatment clients under the age of 18
    received hospital inpatient treatment,
    on average (Office of Applied
    Statistics 2007)

4.6 million female teens had sex and

4.7 million male teens had sex (CDC
2002)

19 million STD infections occur

annually, almost half of them occur
among persons ages 15-24 (CDC 2003)

415,262 girls ages 15 to 19 became

mothers (U.S. Census Bureau 2004)

126,151 abortions were performed on

pregnant girls aged 15-to-19 years
(CDC 2003)

906,000 child abuse convictions in

    2003 with at least three times more
    remaining unreported (Administration
    for Children & Families of the U.S.
   Department of Health & Human
   Services)

44% of rape victims are under age 18

(Bureau of Justice Statistics 2005)

2.1 million mothers living with youths

   aged 12 to 17 had serious mental
   illness during the past year (Office of
   Applied Statistics 2007)

6 million children lived with at least

    one parent who abused or was
    dependent on alcohol or an illicit drug
    during the past year (Office of
   Applied Statistics 2007)

COULD HE? COULD SHE?

DOES THIS CHILD BELONG TO YOU?

7 out of 10 kids are bullied (Bullying Online 2006)
42% of Internet users aged 10 to 17 surveyed said they had seen
online pornography in a recent 12-month span

(Pediatrics 2007)

1.1 million girls and boys between the ages of 16 and 19 were not
in school and had not graduated from high school

(U.S. Census Bureau 2005)

1.3 million teens between the ages of 16 and 19 were idle from
school and work (U.S. Census Bureau 2005)
13.4 million children are poor (U.S. Census Bureau 2005)
21.7 million children lived in single parent families (U.S. Census
Bureau 2005)
1.2 million children are homeless on any given night (National
Center on Family Homelessness 2002)
35.2% of persons living in poverty are children (U.S. Bureau of the
Census 2005)
9,400,000 children do not have health insurance (AMA 2007)
680,000 youths aged 12 to 17 in the U.S. have been in foster care
(Office of Statistics 2007)
30,000 foster kids age out annually and another 30,000 are
dropped from state care because they've run away (Child

Welfare League of America 2005)

17% of children and adolescents ages 2-19 years are overweight
(CDC 2004)
The average child spends 900 hours in school and nearly 1,023
hours in front of a TV each year (KidsHealth)

COULD HE? COULD SHE?

DOES THIS CHILD BELONG TO YOU?

Suicide is the third leading cause of death among 15 to 24 year olds and the sixth leading cause

of death for 5 - to - 14 year olds (CDC 2005)

171,870 or more American children and adolescents were treated for non-fatal self-harm injury

cases (CDC 2004)

2.2 million youth had experienced at least one major depressive episode during the past year

(Office of Statistics 2007)

11,619 children between the ages of 1 and 14 died in the U.S. with the leading cause of death

being unintentional injury (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control 2004)

1.6 to 2.8 million youth run away in a year (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

2002)

58,763 children under the age of 18 were active missing persons (National Crime Information

Center 2006)

2,220,300 persons under the age of 18 were arrested in 2003 (FBI's Crime in the US)

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