• The physical abuse of children fell by 55% from 1992 to 2011.
• Sexual abuse fell by 64% from 1992 to 2011.
• Abductions by strangers fell by 51% from 1997 to 2012.
• Motor vehicle deaths for children under 13 years old fell by 43% in the past decade.
• The number of young Americans who were the victims of violent crime fell 59% since 1994
• The number of 12th graders reporting binge drinking, smoking, and alcohol use has fallen since 1995.
• In 1991, there were 20 teen births for every thousand females aged 10 to 17. By 2013, that number fell to 6.3.
• In 1935, there were just under 450 deaths for every 100,000 kids between ages 1 and 4. Now there are 30 deaths per 100,000 kids in that age range.
• More than 800 child pedestrians were killed from being hit by a car in 1993. There were fewer than 250 such deaths in 2013.
• Reports on missing persons under age 18 have gone down 40% from 1997 to 2014.
Source: New York Magazine, the 2014 National Child and Youth Well-Being Index, The Washington Post
