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  • Up to ten million teens develop eating disorders, abnormal attitudes and behaviors with foods, which include anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa.
  • For females between the ages of 15 - 24 years old, the mortality rate associated with anorexia nervosa is 12 times higher than the death rate of ALL other causes of death.
  • It is estimated that 1 out of every 200 teen girls between the ages of 13 -19 regularly practice self-abusive behavior with a reported two million cases in the U.S. alone.
  • About 50% of self-injurers have a history of sexual or physical abuse.
  • About 72% of alcoholic women under the age of 30 also have eating disorders.
  • Depressive disorders afflict almost 10% of the U.S. population, with two to three times more females than males affected.
  • More than half of all rapes of women (54%) occur before age 18; 22% of these rapes occur before age 12.
  • 34% of girls in America get pregnant at least once before age 20. There are 820,000 teen pregnancies each year and about half as many teen births.