Safety & Injury Prevention

Nearly 1 in 10 parents of a high school athlete knows someone under 18 who has tried performance-enhancing drugs. 3 out of 4 parents support random testing of high school athletes for performance-enhancing drugs. Less than one-half of parents believe there should be individual penalties for high school athletes who test positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

Nearly two-thirds of parents of "tweens" (age 11-13) have left them home alone for 1-2 hours. 1 out of 5 parents have left tweens home alone for an entire day. Over one-quarter of parents have not talked "a lot" with their tweens about neighborhood, Internet or home safety.

About one-half of parents with young children said consumer alerts about cough and cold  medicines for young children and lead-tainted toys affected their families. About 1 in 7 parents with young children had not heard about the cough and cold medication alerts.