Dr. Duane Alexander, director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development says, "This year, the adolescent birth rate has reached another record low, the death rate for children aged 1 to 4 is the lowest ever, young children are more likely to receive their recommended immunizations, and fourth graders are scoring better in math."

The report states 13-percent of children will be diagnosed with the respiratory disease at some point in their lives over the next decade, up from 9-percent in 2003. 5-percent of children currently have "definite or severe cognitive and emotional disabilities or difficulties."

Dr. Susan E. Swedo, director of the division of pediatric translational research and treatment development at the National Institute of Mental Health says, "This is not surprising to us. It's in keeping with smaller community-bases samples."

The report titled America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2005, is statistical research compiled by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.

The bad news in the report is more children will grow up in poverty, more newborns will be underweight, and more children will take part in or be a victim of violent crime. Some positives are that teen pregnancy, drug use, lead poisoning, and teen drop out rates were down from 2003.