Some positive data about today's youth

[DesertRat]

Youth have healthier behaviors today than they did 25 years ago, according to new data from the Youth Behavior Surveillance Survey. This data set, which has been released biannually for more than 25 years, is one of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) only consistent windows on trends in youth behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults.

While there are a handful of disappointing trends (e.g., increases in obesity and time spent gaming, and decreases in sleep and consumption of vegetables), more youth today than ever before report wearing seatbelts, and fewer report that they smoke cigarettes, consume alcohol, take drugs, have sex, and do these things in combination. Here are the positive trends:





https://www.childtrends.org/new-data-show-that-more-youth-have-healthier-behaviors-in-2017-than-25-years-ago

[BigmanPigman]

1. Great news!

I wonder what the stats are for youths and guns as well as drunk driving and speeding while driving.

[DesertRat]

4. Here are some more stats

On youth and guns:
Gun violence is the most common cause of death for young men
https://www.childtrends.org/gun-violence-common-cause-death-young-men
https://www.childtrends.org/indicators/teen-homicide-suicide-and-firearm-deaths

The most recent one I found on youth drunk driving:
"Between 1991 and 2013, the percentage of high school students who report riding
in a car with someone who had been drinking alcohol has fallen by nearly half,
from 40 to 22 percent."
https://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/41_Drunk-Driving.pdf

[BigmanPigman]

5. I had a feeling guns would be up there.

Guns contribute to 30% as a cause of death while vehicles is 25%. I guess that number won't be dropping any time soon as long as the NRA and GOP are a gruesome twosome.

*Thanks for the links!

[DesertRat]

7. Sure thing!

Child Trends produces some of the best research focused on improving the lives of children.

[ProudLib72]

2. Uh oh!

[DesertRat]

3. That's a fake tweet

Although that sounds like something DT might tweet out, it's not a real one.

[ProudLib72]

9. Yep, it's fake

I know because I'm the one who made it.

[uponit7771]

6. ... and less crime than 25 years ago. Could this be due to contraception?

[DesertRat]

8. I don't know about that

But I found this interesting article youth crime stats.
https://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/beh5.asp