According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 20 percent — or 14.7 million — of American children and adolescents aged 2-19 are obese.

Source: https://thefrontierpost.com/us-proposes-slashing-salt-sugar-in-school-meals/

Car crashes remain one of the biggest killers of American children, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Source: https://jalopnik.com/5-children-dead-16-year-old-crash-into-tree-scarsdale-1850243557

Further, we cannot ignore that, given China’s legal atmosphere and its 2017 National Intelligence Law, the Chinese Communist Party can influence the content American children consume en masse.

Source: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/02/08/bidens-misguided-policies-in-state-of-the-union-address/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bidens-misguided-policies-in-state-of-the-union-address

Improving air filtration will not only help stop transmission of current viruses, but it will also protect American children from future pandemics.

Source: https://www.salon.com/2023/06/25/poor-air-filtration-in-schools-is-driving-absences-and-tanking-productivity-but-the-fix-is-simple/

In a 7-2 ruling on June 15, it threw out a challenge to decades-old federal standards that give preferences to Native Americans and tribal members in the adoption or foster care placements of Native American children.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/affirmative-action-student-debt-rulings-loom-at-us-supreme-court/article_9728b593-8f1e-5c1e-8687-bdd383b44f12.html

School districts that benefit from this program educate some of our nation’s most vulnerable students, including large numbers of military children, Native American children and students residing in low-income housing.

Source: https://mauinow.com/2023/12/19/hirono-leads-colleagues-in-introducing-bill-to-provide-construction-funding-to-federally-impacted-school-districts/

The highly regimented boarding schools were designed to cut ties between Native American children and their traditional cultural and spiritual lives and prepare them for manual labor, farming and domestic work.

Source: https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2023/05/william-little-wolf-from-white-earth-reservation-to-navy-gunner-in-world-war-i/

The investigation has been expanded by HSI and DOJ to examine if Central American children and others are part of a scheme to smuggle minors into the United States to work in the meatpacking sector nationwide.

Source: https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/03/02/dhs-expands-investigation-into-migrant-child-labor-in-slaughterhouses-n534349

The recent wave of bans comes as many Republicans, in their opposition to gun control, climate science, food stamps, public education, and other social services, work assiduously to render the lives of American children as unchildlike as possible.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/what-are-we-protecting-children-from-by-banning-books

When Sun Par was gently ushered into a colorful fourth-grade classroom at William Henry Burkhart Elementary School, American children smiled and welcomed her.

Source: https://ss-times.com/william-henry-burkhart-elementary-named-finalist-for-worlds-best-school-prizes/