Facts about Teens (:

Here are many statics that could be intersting to you, things about dating violence, teenagers driving drunk, & teenage pregnancy.

Dating violence according to the NCDSV: • 20 percent of teens have been threatened by their partners, or had partners threaten to hurt themselves if the relationship ended.
• 33 percent of teens, and 50 percent of teen girls, say they have felt pressured to have sex in a serious relationship.
• 30 percent have worried about their safety in a relationship, and 20 percent have been hit, slapped, or pushed.
• 64 percent have been with a jealous or controlling partner.
• 55 percent have compromised their standards to keep their partner.
• 25 percent have been put down or called names by their partner.
Teenage driving drunk statics:

• According to the CDC in 2004, 4,767 teenagers died from fatal car crash injuries.
• From the same report, almost four-hundred thousand other teenagers required medical attention from their injuries sustained in a car collision.
• Teenage drivers are four times more likely to experience a motor vehicle collision than their older driving counterparts are notes the CDC.
• Forty percent of deaths for persons aged 15 to 20 stem from automobile collisions according to the CDC.
• The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration notes twenty-three percent of teenage drivers in fatal car wrecks possessed a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit of .08.

Teenage Pregnancy Statics:

• Each year, almost 750,000 women aged 15–19 become pregnant. Overall, 71.5 pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15–19 occurred in 2006; the rate declined 41% from its peak in 1990 to a low of 69.5 in 2005.

• Black and Hispanic women have the highest teen pregnancy rates (126 and 127 per 1,000 women aged 15–19, respectively); non-Hispanic whites have the lowest rate (44 per 1,000.)

• Eighty-two percent of teen pregnancies are unplanned

• In 2006, there were 42 births per 1,000 women aged 15–19.


Sites used :
Troubled Teen 101
Pregnancy-info.net
Accident Attorneys

A Simple Way To Make Puppy Chow

1 stick of butter ( 8 oz. )                      
1 cup of chocolate chips                        

1 cup of peanut butter

powdered sugar

9 cups of crispix cereal

1. Take the stick of butter, cup of chocolate chips, and cup of peanut and put it in a bowl all together. Melt in microwave for 30 seconds. ( If chunky or not melted enough, put back in for about 15 seconds more. ) Then mix it up.

2. Pour the melted contents onto the 9 cups of crispix cereal and stir so that the entire amount of crispix cereal is covered with the mixture.  ( This may be a little difficult and it may take a little while to do so. )

3. Once this is done, put the coated cereal into baggies ( like ziploc ). Then, put a good amount of powdered sugar into the bags and shake until the powder has coated over the brown spots on the cereal.

After these steps are done, put all the puppy chow into a bowl and enjoy!