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Over 60% of children who play school sports had an athletic pay-to-play fee; only 6% received waivers for the fee. Only one-third of lower-income parents report their child participates in school sports, while more than half of higher-income parents have a teen playing school sports.
Sports offer many health and education benefits for teens. But due to continuing budget challenges, schools have had to tighten their belts when it comes to funding for athletics.
Over the past five years, drug abuse and teen pregnancy have been rated consistently in the National Poll on Children’s Health as two of the top children’s health concerns in the eyes of adults across the U.S.
Overall, 79% of parents and 85% of grandparents of young kids report having prescription medicine at home. Grandparents are 4 times more likely than parents to keep prescription medicine in easy-access places. About two-thirds of adults overall would support potential new laws that would require medicines to be packaged as single-dose servings.
Every 10 minutes in the United States, a child younger than 6 years old is taken to the emergency room for possible poisoning from swallowing a medicine. Each year, unintentional poisonings from medicines cause more emergency room visits for young children than car accidents.
