It also means improved teacher training, smaller classrooms and greater parent involvement in the learning process. The reduction of deaths from unintentional injuries. These injuries were previously responsible for more childhood deaths than any other cause. Now, unintentional injuries from car and bicycle accidents, for example, have been reduced dramatically. Curbing the epidemic of violence.
Guns are still too readily available to children.
Fifty percent of boys say it is easy to obtain a gun, and boys are six times more likely to die of gun accidents than girls. While more firearm deaths of children under the age of 10 are homicides, most adolescent firearm deaths are suicides. Increase gun owner responsibility by increasing liability. Enforce gun laws and increase gun maker responsibility. SWC-2000 is the eighth annual report of how children are faring in the state.