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Armstrong, Elizabeth; Waszak, Cynthia – 1990
Since 1986, this annual cost study has provided a measure of what it costs the taxpayer each year to support families that began when the mother was a teenager. Three sets of public costs are estimated; these reflect: (1) how much the United States spends as a result of teenage childbearing in a given year; (2) the public cost over a projected…
Descriptors: Birth, Birth Rate, Cost Estimates, Data Analysis
PDF pending restorationMetzger, James – 1995
This KIDS COUNT special report focuses on the state of Arkansas' families, using state and national data to discuss demographic and economic changes facing families and the ways those changes affect children. The report discusses the increase in the number of children nationally and statewide growing up in homes without fathers, and notes that the…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Welfare, Children, Demography
Download full textNorth Carolina Child Advocacy Inst., Raleigh. – 1994
This Kids Count report examines statewide trends in the well-being of North Carolina's children. The statistical portrait is based on 16 indicators of well-being: (1) infant mortality rate; (2) infants born with low birth weight; (3) births to single teens; (4) children without insurance; (5) ninth graders who graduate; (6) high school dropout…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Neglect
North Carolina Child Advocacy Inst., Raleigh. – 1995
This Kids Count report examines statewide trends in the well-being of North Carolina's children. The statistical portrait is based on 16 indicators of well-being: (1) infant mortality rate; (2) infants born with low birth weight; (3) births to single teens; (4) children without insurance; (5) high school dropout rate; (6) SAT scores; (7) high…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Neglect
Dahlstrom, Sherryl M.; High, Rhonda L. – 1996
This Kids Count data book is the fourth to examine the well-being of Arkansas' children and notes trends from 1990 to 1995. The report's introductory sections include discussions of the potential impact of welfare reform on Arkansas' children, and present figures detailing the number of children affected by particular risk factors each week. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Neglect
North Carolina Child Advocacy Inst., Raleigh. – 1998
This Kids Count report examines county and statewide trends in the well-being of North Carolina's children from the 1970s through the 1990s. The statistical portrait is based on 40 indicators of well-being in five categories: (1) demographics; (2) physical well-being, including infant mortality rate and percent low birth weight; (3) intellectual…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Neglect
