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Violent Behaviors and Family Income among Adolescents

The NSDUH Report - Violent Behaviors and Family Income among Adolescents

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Combined 2004 to 2008 national data indicate that 22.6 percent of adolescents aged 12 to 17 participated in a serious fight at school or work in the past year; 16.1 percent participated in a group-against-group fight; and,  7.6 percent attacked others with the intent to seriously hurt them; 30.9 percent, or an estimated 7.8 million youths, engaged in at least one of these violent behaviors.  An estimated 40.5 percent of adolescents in families with annual incomes of less than $20,000 and 24.6 percent of those in families with incomes of $75,000 or more participated in any of these violent behaviors.  The pattern of lower rates of violent behaviors with higher family income generally held among students with a “C” or better grade average, but among students with a “D” average or lower, those with higher family incomes were no less likely to participate in violent behaviors than those with lower incomes.

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This Short ,The NSDUH Report - Violent Behaviors and Family Income among Adolescents, is based on SAMHSA's  National Survey on Drug Use and Health, conducted by SAMHSA's Office of Applied Studies (OAS) in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use and Health is the primary source of information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and alcohol use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non institutionalized population, age 12 and older.   SAMHSA's National Survey on Drug Use & Health also provides estimates for drug use by State.

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