17: seventeen-year-olds are minors in the eyes of the law if they're the victim of a crime, but not if they commit a felony. A Chicago Reporter analysis found that hundreds of minors are being prosecuted in adult court and serving hard time in Illinois' adult prisons with other adult ...
After age 15, car accidents continued to predominate, but there was also an increase in the number of motorcycle accidents involving minors, primarily as drivers. Fatal fall accidents were recorded mainly among 5- to 14-year-olds at play (falls from rides, trees, and less frequently from ...
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Not only that, but 17 year olds are not allowed to drive between the hours of 11-5 AM unless it’s for work purposes. Furthermore, many parents can enable text blockers on their teen’s phones. What this does is disables the phone from sending or receiving texts if the vehicle is ...
Another 4-year-old girl was critically injured after she accidentally shot herself in the head in Georgia; her father had left the loaded gun on the floor of their home, police said. A 1995 study found that 25% of 3- to 4-year-olds, 70% of 5- to 6-year-olds and 90% of 7- ...
the U.S. Department of Justice, there were 49.7 victims of violent crime (homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault) for every 1,000 12-to-15-year-olds in 2004, compared with a high of 118.6 in 1994. There was a similar drop of more than 50 percent among 16-to-19-year-olds....
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), unintentional injuries -- burns, drowning, falls, poisoning, car or bike-related injuries and suffocation -- were the leading cause of death in children (infants to 19-year-olds) between 2000 and 2006. An ID card can be a...
“We have so many 15-year-olds who give birth in our wards, and their partners are 30, even 40 years old,” said Madrid. “When we look at our statistics in our women and children’s protection units (in hospitals) … we find that the age where we have the highest incidence of...
A 2010 report by the Kaiser Family Foundation indicated that, among 8- to 18-year-olds, "The transformation of the cell phone into a media content delivery platform, and the widespread adoption of the iPod and other MP3 devices, have facilitated an explosion in media consumption among American...
Traditionally, waterpipe smoking, which was common among the Iranian people, has now decreased from 3.8% to 3.5% among 35–69-year olds from 1991 to 1999. From another side, it has increased from 0.8% to 1.4% among 15–24-year olds [2]. The rising occurrence surged sharply upward ...