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Maps of Child Well-Being in Georgia
The
Georgia 2005 KIDS
COUNT State Summary provides a demographic profile of Georgia's
children, accompanied by maps and graphs that show racial and ethnic
disparities among children for specific indicators of well-being.
Maps
are color-coded and provide a picture of our children living in
different geographic regions statewide, ranked by an indicator.
Where
Georgia's Children Live
Georgia's Children Living in Poverty
Children
At Risk: Child Poverty, High School Graduation
and Composite Teen Births
Disconnected
Youth
Educational
Achievement
Healthy
Start
Children
At Risk: Child Poverty, High School Graduation and Composite Teen
Births
Georgia
lags behind national averages for all three indicators used to identify
patterns of risk for chldren.
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Child
Poverty. Most
of Georgia's children who live in poverty reside in south and middle
Georgia counties.
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High
School Graduation. The
Georgia high school graduation rate has climbed slightly; from 61.8%
in 2002 to 65.4% in 2004. Of the students who exit school with a
regular diploma in the standard four years,
- 70%
are Asian or white, as compared to 49.6% Hispanic and 56.8% black.
- 69.4%
are females versus 61.6% males
- 56%
are economically disadvantaged versus 69.3% who are not
- nearly
40% are migrant children or have limited English profiicency
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Births
to Teen Mothers. Georgia
ranks 43rd out of 50 states for teen birth rate among children ages
15-19. The overall birth rate for teens ages 15-19 continues to
decline, down 53.4 per 1,000 in 2003 from 70.6 per 1,000 in 1994.
Since 1998, the teen birth rate for Hispanic mothers had climbed
dramatically, rising from 99.4 per 1,000 to 152.1 per 1,000.
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Teen
Repeat Births. Repeat
births to mothers before age 20 continues to be an issue. These
mothers are less likely to complete high school and more likely
to live in poverty.
Births
to Hispanic Mothers. In
2003, 18,180 births (or 13.8%) in Georgia were to Hispanic mothers,
compared to 3.9% in 1994.
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