Facts About: Society

  • Alcoholism is among the leading causes of death in many countries like Spain, where it ranks third. In the United States ranks first of the dead between 15 and 45 years old
  • For adolescents, initiation of drug use corresponded to declining quality of relationships with their parents.
  • About 80% of women in prostitution have been the victim of a rape
  • Adolescents who reported having more positive relationships with their fathers were less likely to be arrested, sell drugs, attack another individual, carry a handgun, belong to a gang
  • Young people who come from a low-income family and have fewer than two adults living in their household are especially at risk for becoming smokers
  • Guatemala has an estimated population of 14.7 million people in 2011
  • Alcoholics have, as a social group, one of the highest rates of marital separation and divorce