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There are 67 million people in the U.S. ages 18-34 and 40% leave their faith during these years. (Foster ...read more
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Kid Stress: According to a national survey conducted by Insight Express, 42% of kids aged 13-17 believe that selecting the right outfit for the first day of school is more stressful than homework (29%), being called on in class (19%) or ...read more
Some schools in Japan have begun trial runs in which students carry chips attached to their backpacks that have tiny antennae and can be traced by radio. The chips send signals to receivers at school gates. A computer in the system shows when a student enters or leaves. School officials say rising ...read more
A majority of salvation decisions come in direct response to an invitation given by a family member or friend reports a new Barna survey. ...read more
E-Personas: 56% of online teens in the US have more than one email address or screen name and most use different screen names or email addresses to separate different parts of their lives online, or so that they can experiment with different personas. 61% of boys have more than one address; almost ...read more
Girl Power Comics: Sales of Japanese comics - more familiarly known as manga (pronounced MAHN-gah) - are exploding in the U.S., and much of the boom is due to efforts by comic book publishers to extend their reach beyond young male readers. “Manga producers in the U.S. have tapped into a new ...read more
Boomerang Kids: Almost 16 million families had at least one child over 18 living at home in ‘03, up 7% since ‘95 and 14% since ‘85, according to the Census Bureau’s American Housing Survey. They leave and come back, sometimes more than once, often after college, between jobs, before marriage, after ...read more
Orwellian In Sutter, CA, a close-knit farming town northwest of Sacramento local school 7th & 8th graders are required to wear identification cards around their necks with their picture, name and grade and a RFID wireless transmitter that beams their ID number to a teacher’s handheld computer when ...read more
74% of home-educated adults ages 18-24 have taken college-level courses, compared to 37% of U.S. adults of similar ages. ...read more
88% of homeschool grads are members of a church, community group, union, homeschool group or professional organization versus 50% of U.S. ...read more
U.S. companies lose $3 billion each year due to absences resulting from breakdowns in childcare. (Foster ...read more
1 in 5 sixteen year-olds crash their cars within the first year of driving. (Foster Letter ...read more
Teen Faith: A new study by scholars at the university of North Carolina at chapel Hill, finds that teens are really quite traditional faith. Only 3% say they don’t believe in God vs. 80% that say faith is important in their lives. Overall, kids prefer their parents religious groups. More than half ...read more
81% of parents of online teens say teens aren’t careful enough when giving out personal info online and 79% of online teens agree. ...read more
Liberal Educators: A study by political science professors Robert Lichter, Stanley Rothman and Neil Nevitte finds that 72% of those teaching at U.S. universities and colleges are liberal and 15% are conservative. 50% of the faculty members surveyed identified themselves as Democrats vs. 11% as ...read more
The 2005 Child Well-Being Index notes that just 41% of 12th-graders attend weekly religious ceremonies in ‘04, down from 51% in ’75. ...read more
33.2 % of cell phone users in America are between the ages of 5 and 19. (Foster Letter ...read more
Public schools expelled 5,000 preschool students last year, more than three times K-12 schools, says Yale University researchers. ...read more
Lives Molested: A new study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surprisingly discovered that 16% of adult men were sexually molested as children and that 38% of the perpetrators were female. 25% of adult women reported being molested, 94% of the time by males. Molestation victims ...read more
The largest group of new users of the Internet are kids 2-5. (Foster Letter ...read more
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