• Among social media users, 88% of teens have seen someone be mean or cruel to another person on a social media site.
• Only 11% of teens talk to parents about incidents of cyberbullying. Click here for a resource on cyberbullying.
• 86.8% of tweens and 89.6% of teens expressed or experienced violent subject matter/thoughts.
  
  
• Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death for youth aged 10-24.
• 9.1% of the US teen population (ages 12-17) had at least one major depressive episode in the past year.
• 55.1% of tweens and 67.1% of teens engaged in conversations about depression.
• 35.1% of tweens and 54.4% of teens were involved in a self-harm/suicidal situation.
  
  
• 75.5% of tweens and 84.6% of teens engaged in conversations surrounding drugs/alcohol.
  
• Prescription drug abuse epidemic is America’s fastest growing drug problem.  73% of teens say it is easy to access prescription drugs from their parents’ medicine cabinet.
  
• Vaping has been declared a national youth epidemic by the US Surgeon General.
  TE resource on vaping
  Drugs & Alcohol Fact Sheet
  
  
• 1 in 4 sexually active adolescent females have an STD (14-19 years).
• 1 in 4 teens is sexting.
  
  
• 70.7% of tweens and 84.0% of teens encountered nudity or content of a sexual nature.
• Average age of a child's first exposure to pornography is 11 years old.
• Pornography searches increase by 4,700%  when children are out of school.