Discussion Post: Child and Adolescent Safety Statistics
Prior to completing this discussion, read Chapters 5 and 6 in your textbook. You may be interested in viewing the interactive infographic within Chapter 6 to learn more about specific safety statistics.
Safety is an important issue to consider when explaining the physical development in children and adolescence. For this discussion, you will address the following:
1) Provide examples of new safety guidelines that did not exist either when you were growing up, or when your parents were growing up.
2) Then, review What Is CRAAP? A Guide to Evaluating Web Sources and search the internet for credible sources, using Ashford University Library's video Scholarly and Popular Resources for guidelines. Find and report on three statistics specifically related to child and adolescent safety from this current decade (2010 to present). Provide one statistic for each of the three stages: infancy or toddlerhood, childhood, and adolescence. Address the social system (family, school, and the community) that is affected by this statistic if applicable.
• In other words, you will have one unique statistic for each of the three stages. Be sure to reference the site where the statistic was located.
The response should include a reference list. One-inch margins, Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space and APA style of writing and citations.