Stat: Children of single adolescent mothers are 2.7 times more likely to be delinquent than children of single mothers in their 20s, according to the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). in 2006.
Stat: Teenagers account for 17 percent of all violent crimes in the United States, according to the 2006 OJJDP study.
Stat: Black juveniles were involved in 51 percent of violent crime arrests in 2006, according to the OJJDP.
And this young man proved those stats to be incorrect.
Pressofatlanticcity.com:
Statistics are a sports junkie's fix. Fans can come up with any number to prove a point.
However, stats have also been disproved time and time again as they often tell only part of a story. As Ed Keyes grew up in Pleasantville, his mother Trenise
Williams, 37, told him not to pay attention to stats.
She was a 16-year-old single mom when Keyes was born and knew what the numbers said about that.
Stat: 70 percent of juvenile delinquents in state reform institutions did not live with both birth parents during their formative years, according to an American Demographics article in 1996.
"These kids would either end up in jail or on the streets," Williams said. "I always told them don't be a statistic. After high school, you are either going to go to college or take up a trade. There are no other options."
Keyes set that example by developing numbers he wanted everyone to know about - his basketball stats. The Atlantic City High School graduate is a starting guard for the Ouachita Baptist University men's basketball team in Arkadelphia, Ark.
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Our American children are very bright and only want a chance to continue to learn. It's sad education in the US isn't important as giving Iraq 10 billion a month.
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