The Department of Child Services recorded fifteen more death in 2011 than in the previous year.
Knox, Cass and Lawrence counties have some of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the state of Indiana.
Children who are most likely to be abused by a school employee include girls, especially girls of color whose parents do not speak English.
The new rules will limit credit card use to spending money previously appropriated for a particular purchase.
Only 10 percent of parents think their own teens drank alcohol in the last year and 5 percent think their teens smoked marijuana in the last year.
More than 24,000 cases of child abuse were reported in the state of Indiana in 2009