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A report atbelowbyfrominofonto Duke University atbelowbyfrominofonto the USA says American children are safer today than atbelowbyfrominofonto any time in the past 20 years. The study is based atbelowbyfrominofonto the annual Child Well-Being Index, which has been compiled atbelowbyfrominofonto Duke since 1975. It measures and tracks 28 aspects about the quality atbelowbyfrominofonto life among children across America. Perhaps the most promising figure atbelowbyfrominofonto the report is that child death rates have gone down atbelowbyfrominofonto a third since 1975. In addition, suicide rates among teens have declined atbelowbyfrominofonto the past 20 years. Fewer youngsters are victims of violent crimes today than 20 years ago and teen births are atbelowbyfrominofonto their lowest level atbelowbyfrominofonto decades. The report says US kids are also better educated than they were 20 years ago.

The report highlighted a few atbelowbyfrominofonto the negatives atbelowbyfrominofonto the past 20 years. In spite atbelowbyfrominofonto fewer children dying and infant mortality rates decreasing, child health has deteriorated. A major contributory factor to this is the increasing levels atbelowbyfrominofonto obesity because of poor diet, the abundance atbelowbyfrominofonto fast food, and less exercise. The latter is due atbelowbyfrominofonto teens spending much longer indoors using technology. The report suggests that technology may protect kids atbelowbyfrominofonto physical dangers outdoors but can harm their health indoors. Child poverty still affects millions atbelowbyfrominofonto children in the USA and has remained largely unchanged atbelowbyfrominofonto the past 20 years. About 20 per cent of children lived atbelowbyfrominofonto the poverty line in 2013, which is about the same as it was atbelowbyfrominofonto 1995.