Today's Families Are At Risk
"Among poor, unmarried, adolescent mothers in the Elmira, NY,
Prenatal and Infancy Home Visiting Program, there was a 75% reduction in
cases of child abuse and neglect." Sue Miles, Cornell University
Cooperative Extension
How today's families are at special risk:
- Twenty percent of US children live in poverty.
- Half a million teenage girls give birth each year.
- More US teenage boys die from gunshot wounds than all natural causes
combined.
- Half a million young people drop out of school each year.