Sentences with phrase «percent of young children»

Preschool teachers in low - income neighborhoods report that between 15 and 20 percent of the young children in their classrooms exhibit clinically high levels of disruptive and challenging behaviors.

Formal care arrangements — such as child care centers and preschools — are an increasingly prominent part of children's lives: 65 percent of young children have all available parents in the workforce.

Early childhood mental health, or healthy emotional well - being, has been clearly linked to children's school readiness outcomes, and research estimates that between 9 percent and 14 percent of young children experience mental health, or social and emotional, issues that negatively impact their development.

The Chronicle cited a recent CDC estimate that 15.4 percent of young children have been diagnosed by doctors as having «a mental, behavioral, or developmental disorder.»

On average, 90 percent of young children do not consume the USDA recommendation of daily vegetables, and nearly 99 percent do not consume the recommended amount of whole grains.

More than 90 percent of those young children with neuroblastoma in the lower risk or intermediate risk groups get to celebrate their 6th or 7th birthday, reports American Cancer Society.

12 Pica, an eating disorder in which sufferers develop an appetite for nonnutritive substances such as paint and dirt, affects up to 30 percent of young children.

At any given time, NTHI is present in the nose and mouth in about 50 percent of young children, an environment rich in nutrients such as heme - iron, which all bacteria need to survive.

Moreover, they also occur more generally when kids develop high fevers — afflicting up to 5 percent of young children.

It is estimated that 5 to 8 percent of young children develop Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease.

Approximately 5 percent of young children and 4 percent of adults in the United States have a food allergy.

As sociologist Philip Cohen detailed this week, just 34 percent of all young children are being raised in what we consider a «normal» modern family — two working parents.

Parents do rule by law over 99 percent of the young child's life; they are the final word.

Today, only 42 percent of the younger children and 8 percent of high school - age children attend school.

Not exact matches

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program changed the lives of young people who came to the United States illegally as children in incredible ways — boosting high school graduation rates and college enrollment, while slashing teen births by a staggering 45 percent.

The mainline mix of conventional practice and discursive liberalism is apparently attractive to many young and middle - aged married couples with children, who made up 34 percent of the active adult attendees of mainline churches in the «90s, a clear majority of the active attendees age 60 and under.

Forty - four percent of young pet owners see their pets as «starter children.»

In Bangladesh, where infant formula isn't readily accessible, affordable or safe for most families, 98 percent of babies are breastfed and the average age of weaning is 33 months (source: WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding).

Approximately 2.5 percent of children younger than three years of age are allergic to milk.»

According to a Consumer Reports poll, 35 percent of children age five and younger drink juices exceeding pediatricians» recommendations.

Dr. William Sears in The Baby Book recommends against soy formula as a first choice for many reasons including that «30 - 50 percent of infants who are allergic to cow's milk protein are also allergic to soy protein,» and that «giving an infant soy at a young age, when intestines are more permeable to allergens, may predispose the child to soy allergies later on, even as an adult.»

More than 60 percent of the parents, more than 21 million with children younger than 18, are at work when the children come home from school.

In what may prove reassuring for those who wish to shift the argument from self or government censorship to parental responsibility, the poll showed that a majority of parents (63 percent) monitor what their children watch either «frequently» or «occasionally,» with 82 percent of parents of younger children (ages 2 - 11) supervising the youngsters» viewing.

Recent surveys of parents revealed that over 90 percent of children have already used a mobile device before their first birthday, some as young as four months!

Unless you are immunocompromised, elderly, pregnant, or a young child, there is no reason to obsess about eating food that is 100 percent free of all bacteria known to man.

Additionally, between 2000 and 2013, 84 percent of the 430 deaths reported to CPSC involved children younger than 10.

Any qualified young widow received 75 percent of the worker's primary insurance benefit and surviving children received 50 percent of the worker's primary insurance amount.59 For both survivors» and dependents» benefits, eligibility was based solely on marriage to a covered worker and without account for actual need.60

Of all the children younger than 6 in the U.S., 56 percent ate breakfast and 79 percent ate dinner with their mother every day in 20.

Around 50 percent of children between 10 and 18 bite their nails at least occasionally, and for many kids, the habit starts even younger.

Even in the face of study after study detailing the detrimental effects of physical punishment on young children, more than ninety - percent of American parents still admit to spanking their toddlers and preschoolers, even if they don't believe that it is a good alternative.

According to a report from the USDA, WIC served an estimated 63.5 percent of eligible women, infants, and young children in Maryland in 2014, compared to a 54.8 percent rate nationally.

More than 60 percent of mothers of young children work.

One to two percent of young U.S. children have a milk allergy.

Twenty - nine percent of children 2 to 3 years of age have a television in their bedroom, and 30 % of parents have reported that watching a television program enabled their children to fall asleep.3 Although parents perceive a televised program to be a calming sleep aid, some programs actually increase bedtime resistance, delay the onset of sleep, cause anxiety about falling asleep, and shorten sleep duration.41 Specifically, in children younger than 3 years, television viewing is associated with irregular sleep schedules.42 Poor sleep habits have adverse effects on mood, behavior, and learning.

Between 2006 and 2010, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) says 12 percent of in - home fatalities of children younger than 5 resulted from bath seats or bath aids used inside the bathtub.

According to a Pew Research Center analysis, more than 25 percent of fathers with children aged 18 years or younger now live apart from their children.

VUR is found in 30 to 40 percent of babies and young children who have UTIs.

While night terrors are rare, occurring in only 3 to 6 percent of children, according to KidsHealth, they can develop in babies as young as 18 months old.

Malnutrition, caused by inadequate nutrient intake and disease, is a direct cause of 30 percent of all child deaths in developing countries and can result in a five - to - ten-fold increase in a child's risk of death from diarrhea.3 Characterized by low weight and height for age, and low weight for height, malnutrition can be prevented through optimal infant and young child feeding — exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months, along with continued breastfeeding and nutritious, hygienically prepared complementary foods during the six to 24 month period.

Young children get 10 to 15 percent of their daily calories from sugar - sweetened beverages (soda, fruit punches, and sports drinks).

Excess sugar in young children's diets is thought to be the reason that 28 percent of two - to five - year - olds have cavities in their baby teeth.

Young children in Western New York suffer from the highest rate of lead poisoning in the upstate region — a rate that's more than three times higher than that in Flint, Mich., where a cost - driven switch to an alternate water system left 4 percent of children tested with signs of lead exposure.

Women currently make up less than 20 percent of Congress, and a small number of the 106 women serving on Capitol Hill have young children.

Parents with young children in public schools were even more frustrated, with 63 percent of them voicing their disapproval to pollsters.

The report noted that only about 4 percent of all delinquency petitions in the state involve children younger than 12.

An estimated 4 to 14 percent of preschoolers have moderate farsightedness, or hyperopia, but it often goes undetected in younger children.

Because of increased prosperity and better medical care, the risk of death for children younger than 5 is projected to decrease by more than 40 percent by 2030.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / prudkov The obesity epidemic has already reached the youngest demographic: About 17 percent of U.S. children and teens are obese, and about one in three are overweight.

«The thing that surprised me is that only about 50 percent of young adults had continuous insurance for a full year at a time,» commented Carol Ford, M.D., FSAHM, president of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine and division chief of adolescent medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Surprisingly, it is not just high school athletes suffering concussions; athletes ages 12 to 15 make up almost half (47 percent) of the sports - related concussions seen in the ER, a statistic made even more disturbing by the knowledge that younger children with concussions take a longer time to recover than older children.