Children at Risk in USA?

02/28/2006

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Work & Family Life (February 2006; [email protected]) reported that although "... the United States predictably ranks first in many areas: military technology, Gross Domestic Product, health technology, and number of millionaires and billionaires per capita ...." when it comes to child protection, it is a different story. Compared to other industrialized countries, the United States ranks...

25th in infant mortality
13th in the gap between rich and poor children
22nd in low birth weight rates
18th in the percent of children in poverty

The article concludes with the report by the Centers for Disease Control (www.cdc.gov) that US children under 15 are 12 times as likely to die from gunfire as children in the 25 other industrialized countries combined.

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