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Family Meals More than six out of ten foreign-born adolescents ages 12 to 17 ate with their families six to seven days a week in 2003, compared with four out of ten adolescents who are native-born with native-born parents...> View Indicator Steroid Use In 2002-2003, tenth and twelfth grade males who were highly involved with an athletic team were more likely than those who did not participate to have used steroids in the last year. In grade 12, the contrast was 5.1 percent for males participating in athletics to a great extent compared with 2.2 percent for those not participating at all...> View Indicator Breastfeeding In 2004, non-Hispanic black mothers were less likely than non-Hispanic white, Hispanic, and Asian mothers to breastfeed their infants at six months (21 percent compared with 38 percent for non-Hispanic white mothers and 40 percent for Hispanic and Asian mothers)...> View Indicator Vigorous Physical Activity By Youth Regular, vigorous physical activity among high school students increased notablly between 2003 and 2005, from 63 percent to 69 percent...> View Indicator Mothers Who Smoke While Pregnant The percentage of births to women who reported smoking during pregnancy dropped substantially during the 1990s, from 19.5 percent in 1989 to 10.2 percent in 2004 (preliminary estimate). However, over one-quarter of those with a low level of education (nine to eleven years of education) reported smoking during pregnancy in 2003, the most recent year for which those data are available... > View Indicator Condom Use Condom use at most recent sexual intercourse among sexually active high school students increased from 46 percent in 1991 to 63 percent in 2005. Over the past two years condom use has remained constant...> View Indicator Oral Sex Among teens ages 15 to 19 who have not had sexual intercourse, almost one in four report having ever engaged in oral sex with an opposite sex partner (24 percent of males and 22 percent of females in 2002), based on analyses of the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)... > View Indicator Participation in School Athletics Since 1991, the gender gap in school sports participation has declined among eighth, tenth and twelfth grade students. For example, for twelfth graders, the gender gap shrank from 18 percentage points in 1991 to nine percentage points in 2006... > View Indicator Seat Belt Use and Child Safety Seats Seat belt use among children under age eight has recently declined from 88 percent in 2002, the first year for which such data are available, to 82 percent in 2004, largely due to decreases among children ages four to seven. In 2006, 84 percent of children under the age of eight used seat belts...> View Indicator Drunk Driving Between 2003 and 2005 the percent of high school males who report driving after drinking dropped slightly, from 15 percent to 12 percent, continuing an ongoing trend... > View Indicator Daily Cigarette Use Between 1996 and 2005, daily cigarette use fell by more than half among both eighth grade students (from 10 percent to 4 percent, respectively) and tenth grade students (from 18 percent to 8 percent, respectively). Cigarette use has also been declining among twelfth graders, from 23 percent in 1999 to a new low of 14 percent in 2005... > View Indicator Binge Drinking Binge drinking among eighth and tenth graders continued to decline slowly in recent years, from 15 percent of eighth graders in 1999 to 11 percent in 2005 and from 26 percent among tenth graders in 2000 to 21 percent in 2005. However, the rate for twelfth graders has remained constant in the last several years and was at 28 percent in 2005... > View Indicator Heavy Drinking Among Parents Heavy drinking among fathers declined slightly between 2003 and 2004, with the percentage of fathers who reported heavy drinking at least once per month decreasing from 14 percent to 12 percent... > View Indicator Parental Smoking The percentage of parents of children under age 18 who report being current smokers declined overall between 2000 and 2004, from 25 percent to 21 percent... > View Indicator Marijuana Use Marijuana use has declined in recent years, but is still above the low rates of the early 1990s. > View Indicator Illicit Drug Use Other Than Marijuana In 2003, nearly one in ten twelfth grade students reported using illicit drugs other than marijuana in the past month... > View Indicator Substance Free Youth The percentage of twelfth grade students who report being substance free (no cigarettes, no alcohol, no illicit drugs) in the last 30 days increased from 26 percent in 1976 to a high of 47 percent in 2005... > View Indicator Regular Bedtime and Mealtime Young children from low income families are much less likely than those from high income families to have a regular bedtime and a regular mealtime. In 2000, 47 percent of those with annual family incomes at or below $17,500 had both the same bedtime and the same mealtime every day, compared with 70 percent for those with family incomes exceeding $60,000... > View Indicator
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