Our Children in Crisis - The Statistics

ADDICTION
  • Kills 95% of addicts who do not receive treatment.
  • In 2008 52.5 % of tenth graders and 32.1% Of eighth graders were drinking alcohol; 23.9% Of tenth graders and 32.4% of twelfth graders were using marijuana
  • 450,000 die from smoking every year in America and another 100,000 die from complications related to alcohol abuse.
CHILD ABUSE
  • The main types of child abuse are physical, sexual emotional and neglect.
  • In 2006 79.4% of child abuse offenders were the victims parents and 6.7% the victims relatives.
  • In 2006 an estimated 905,000 children were victims of child abuse or neglect.
  • In 2006 approx. 312,000 children were removed from their homes due to child abuse investigations and assessments. Of this number around 63.6% had suffered from neglect. 8.6 % from physical abuse, and 16.8 % from other types of abuse such as emotional
EATING DISORDERS
  • In the U.S an estimated 10 million females and 1 million males are afflicted with Bulemia or Anorexia
  • 95% are between 12 and 25
  • Anorexia is the third most common chronic illness among adolescents
PORNOGRAPHY
  • 72 million people visit porn sites each year.
  • In hotels 80% of in-room entertainment comes from pornographic movies ordered by 50% of all hotel guests.
  • Each year the porn industry makes more than 3 billion in Child Porn alone
  • The 12-17 age group is the largest consumer of internet porn
SELF MUTILATION
  • Studies show between 15 and 20% of adolescents will experiment with it
  • 4% of the population currently struggles with this issue
  • There is an equal occurrence in both sexes
  • Two to Three Million Americans between 13 and 30 cut themselves
TEEN PREGNANCY
  • The U.S has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the Western World. 
  • 4.4 million women between 15 &19 undergo unsafe abortions
  • Between 22% and 30% of teen mothers under age 18 have a second baby within 2 years

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