Children (& Animal Welfare)

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“Teach them to be kind to animals and they will grow up also kind to people”.


Children Welfare:

Time.com gives us the following facts. The Center of Disease Control and Prevention analyzed the number of gun-related homicides, suicides, and unintentional deaths and injuries among U.S. children.

  • Guns kill about 10 times more black children than they do white children each year

  • Black children faced the highest rates of gun-related homicides, at 3.5 for every 100,000

  • Most of these events occur “in multi-victim events and involved intimate partner or family conflict.”

  • Researchers also found that gun-related deaths, injuries and homicides are higher among boys ages 13 to 17 than teen girls and younger boys

Please click HERE to read the full article.

Time.com gives us the following facts about kids and water and how swim lessons can not only increase safety, but also encourage kids to be healthy.

  • 70% of African- American children have low or no swim ability

  • 60% of Hispanic children have low or no swim ability

  • 40% of Caucasian children have low or no swim ability

  • Participation in formal swim lessons drastically reduce the risk of drowning and parents must take the initiative

  • 80% of households where parents don’t know how to swim, children don’t learn either

  • When parents don’t swim, there is only a 19% chance their children will. 

Click Here to read the full article on Time.com, written by a African-American two-time Olympic gold medalist. Click Here to get involved with the Make a Splash Initiative.

Feedingamerican.org gives us the following facts about Child hunger in the United States:

  • In the United States today, 15 million children face hunger; 1 in 5 kids are facing greater obstacles to reaching their fullest potential because of this.

  • 84% of client households with children report purchasing the cheapest food available, even if they knew it wasn’t the healthiest option, in an effort to provide enough food for their household. 

  • Among Feeding America client households with children, nearly 9 in 10 households (89 percent) are food insecure.

Please click Here to read more about how you can help with solving the problem of hunger in the United States.

Time Magazine gives the following facts about bullying:

  • Over 3.2 million students are victims of bullying each year.

  • Approximately 160,000 teens skip school every day because of bullying

  • 17% of American students report being bullied 2 to 3 times a month or more within a school semester.

  • 1 in 4 teachers see nothing wrong with bullying and will only intervene 4% of the time

  • By age 14 less than 30% of boys and 40% of girls will talk to their peers about bullying

Click Here for tips to help your kids cope with being bullied, by Time magazine, Oct 2015

Animal Welfare:


Dosomething.org gives us the following facts about animal testing:

  • Over 100 million animals are burned, crippled, poisoned, and abused in US labs every year.

  • 92% of experimental drugs that are safe and effective in animals fail in human clinical trials because they are too dangerous or don’t work.

  • Labs that use mice, rats, birds, reptiles and amphibians are exempted from the minimal protections under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA).

  • Up to 90% of animals used in U.S. labs are not counted in the official statistics of animals tested. 

  • Europe, the world’s largest cosmetic market, Israel and India have already banned animal testing for cosmetics, and the sale or import of newly animal-tested beauty products.

Click Here to go to Dosomething.org for more facts and to learn about what you can do to help.

Nearly 100 animals were recently killed on a property in South Africa, shot dead in a activity called Driven Hunts…a method that even fellow hunters are saying is unethical. – Huffington Post

Study Says 90% of Seabirds Have Ingested Plastic – Time Magazine, September 2, 2015

Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) concludes that the most effective way to help animals and to prevent the largest amount of suffering is to be an advocate for farm animals. – ACE Website

The total number of animals killed in shelters each year is around 4 million, for fur 10 million, and in laboratories 11.5 million. – Harish Sethu, website Counting Animals

Every year, hundreds of millions of animals…many times more than the total number killed for fur, housed in shelters, and locked in laboratories combined…don’t even make it to slaughter. They actually SUFFER to death. – The Animal Activist’s Handbook by Matt Ball and Bruce Friedrich

After Cecil The Lion’s Death, Airlines Refuse To Ship Exotic Hunting Trophies – Huffington Post

The Big Five: Africa’s Most Sought-After Trophy Animals; the biggest hunting industry on the continent – NY Times August 10

Despite intensifying calls to ban or restrict trophy hunting in Africa after the killing of a lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe, most conservation groups, wildlife management experts and African governments support the practice as a way to maintain wildlife. – NY Times August 10

The Big Five: Africa’s Most Sought-After Trophy Animals; the biggest hunting industry on the continent – NY Times August 10

In a country that lavishes love and legal protections on house pets, factory-farmed animals are left out in the cold, exempt from almost all animal-cruelty laws. They suffer torture and other mistreatment to a degree that it hard to imagine. See Mercy for Animals Animal Welfare Group. – NY Times August 9th Editorial Page

There are about 100 elephants that die every 24 hours due to Poaching…one every 14 minutes. The U.S. has the power to stop a devastating slaughter by poachers – New York Times