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The study found that the teenage birthrate is at an all-time low, that youths were less likely in 2002 to commit violent crimes or become victims of them than in the year before, and that the death rate has declined for children and young teenagers.
But the prevalence of overweight children has increased, and small increases have occurred in the percentages of low-birth-weight infants, of infants who die before their first birthday, and of children living in poverty.
“America’s Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2004,” is available from the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.
“America’s Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2004,” is available from the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.
—Darcia Harris Bowman