April 18, 2013
Self-care is much more prevalent among middle school-age children than among those in elementary school. Five percent of children age 5 to 11 (1.3 million) and 27 percent of children (2.9 million) age 12 to 14 regularly cared for themselves in 2011. On average, children spent an average of seven hours per week in self-care.
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