Did You Know? 1 in 6 Children Now Has a Developmental Disability in the U.S.

Something is very wrong here.
Shell Tzorfas on YouTube pointed us to this U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) paper ‘Trends in the Prevalence of Developmental Disabilities in U. S. Children, 1997 – 2008′ and what are some pretty astonishing figures.
The joint CDC – Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) paper not only revealed that one in six children across America suffered from a developmental disability in 2006-2008, but the rate of parent-reported developmental disabilities in their children had increased 17.1% from 1997 to 2008.
Worse, in the 12-year period, the prevalence of autism increased nearly three hundred percent (289.5%).
Males were twice as likely to suffer from developmental disabilities as females. The sample size wasn’t small, either; the study included some 119,367 children.
One in six. That means if you go to just two of your neighbors’ homes with children, it is very likely that at one of them, you will find at least one child with a developmental disability. And these figures were from 2008, so that begs the question: how bad are they now?
And moreover –
What is happening to our children?

This post was published at The Daily Sheeple on August 25th, 2014.