6/03Average quality-of-life rating researchers assign U.S. children with cancer, on a scale of 1 to 100: 69

Dr. Jeffrey B. Schwimmer, University of California, San Diego

    Average quality-of-life rating assigned obese children: 67

Dr. Jeffrey B. Schwimmer, University of California, San Diego

2/98Chance that an American child will be diagnosed with cancer before the age of 10: 1 in 667

National Cancer Institute (Bethesda, Md.)

1/00Number of New York City children issued Civil Defense dog tags by 1952 to identify them after a nuclear attack: 2,500,000

Jonas and Nissenson, Going, Going, Gone

3/90Percentage increase, since 1977, in the number of American children diagnosed as having learning disabilities: 142

Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities (Pittsburgh)

5/84Percentage increase in suicides among American teenagers since 1959: 300

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