Did You Know...

In the United States,

2 children under 5 are murdered every day?

12 children and youths die from firearms every day?

77 babies die every day?

399 children are arrested for drug abuse every day?

1,352 babies are born to teen mothers every day?

2,140 babies are born into poverty every day?

2,806 high school students drop out every day?

5,044 children are arrested every day?

17,297 students are suspended from school every day?

1 out of 2 children lives in a single-parent family at some point in his or her childhood?

1 out of 2 children never completes a single year of college?

1 out of 3 children will be poor at some point in his or her childhood (and 1 out of 5 is poor now)?

1 out of 3 children is hungry or at risk for going hungry?

1 out of 6 children has no health insurance?

each year, an estimated 826,000 children are victims of abuse and neglect?