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On each and every year in the United States of America authentic investigative studies are undertaken to have a rigorous assessment of the national development in all sectors specially the health standards. In this regard, it has come to the knowledge that in comparison to the national statistics for the previous year, this very year has witnessed a substantial growth in the general percentage of children who do live long with a working parent. It has also been learnt in this regard that the percentage of children living in households classified as food insecure has declined to a significant extent. In addition, the percentage of the high school students were found to have adopted sophisticated academic courses resulting into the escalation in the numbers of the high school qualified young adults.
The significant testimony has been published in the recent days in the annual report of the Government of the United States of America destined to keep an eye on the interests of the children and youth of the entire nation. To be very precise, the report is a collection of the recently published statistics on the behalf of the Federal State and has been issued by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics for the development of the general health of the posterity. The report has been fabricated through the collection of information that have been gathered through extensive researches over an assortment of imperative areas that include family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health.
While being asked by this correspondent on the recent development Dr. Duane Alexander, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health while speaking on this said, "The increase in the percentage of children living with a working parent is welcome news. Secure parental employment helps to reduce the psychological toll on families, brought on by parental unemployment and underemployment." He went on saying, "This year also saw a rise in the percentage of children with low birthweight." The crisis of the mortality rate of the infants with low birthweight has always been significant resulting in the increased risk of dying in the first year of life, again there is always a serious risk stern disability. However, there is a high expectation about the gradual eradication of this menace since a lot of researches at present are under process for the prevention of preterm birth, a foremost basis of low birthweight.
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