Explain how recent social improvements positively impact American youth. What, in your view, is the single most important social improvement? Support your view
What will be an ideal response?
• Teenage birthrates nationwide have declined substantially during the past decade, with the sharpest declines among African American girls.
• In the same period, the teen abortion rate has also declined.
• These data indicate that more teens are using birth control and practicing safe sex.
• Fewer children are being born with health risks today than in 1990—this may mean that fewer women are drinking or smoking during pregnancy and that fewer are receiving late or no prenatal care.
• Since 1990 the number of children immunized against disease has increased.
• Adolescents are taking fewer risks when they ride in cars:
o From 1991 to 2011, the percentage of high school students who never or rarely wore a seatbelt declined from 26% to 8%.
o From 1991 to 2011, the percentage of students who rode with a driver who had been drinking alcohol during the past 30 days declined from 40% to 24%.
o The percentage of high school students who had driven a car during the past 30 days when they had been drinking alcohol decreased from 17% in 1997 to 8% in 2011.
• Since 1999, the percentage of high school students who drank alcohol during the past 30 days decreased from 50% to 39% and, since 1997, the percentage who reported binge drinking (having 5 or more drinks of alcohol in a row during the past 30 days) decreased from 33% to 22%.
• More parents are reading to their children and math achievement is rising in grades 4 through 12.
• More youths are going to college: college enrollment is now about 21 million and is expected to continue setting new records for the next decade.
• Almost 30% of the adult population in the United States now has a college degree.
• Student answers will vary.
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