How Happy Are Your Kids?

Twenty-one percent of moms are concerned that their kids are being pushed by peers to do poorly in school. But in fact, that's true for only 2 percent of kids. And there's more evidence to calm parents of potential underachievers: 60 percent of kids actually are being encouraged by their peers to do well in school.

More teens report pressure to engage in risky behavior than tweens.

• Pressure to drink alcohol
  
  Tweens: 4 percent
  
  Teens: 23 percent
• Pressure to do drugs
  
  Tweens: 5 percent
  
  Teens: 19 percent
• Pressure to smoke cigarettes
  
  Tweens: 6 percent
  
  Teens: 17 percent

• Getting good grades
  
  Girls: 54 percent
  
  Boys: 44 percent
• How they look
  
  Girls: 49 percent
  
  Boys: 30 percent
• Their weight
  
  Girls: 48 percent
  
  Boys: 22 percent
• Problems with friends
  
  Girls: 42 percent
  
  Boys: 24 percent
• College being too expensive
  
  Girls: 36 percent
  
  Boys: 24 percent
• Problems with parents
  
  Girls: 29 percent
  
  Boys: 21 percent
• Not finding a boyfriend/girlfriend
  
  Girls: 31 percent
  
  Boys: 16 percent
• Getting a disease
  
  Girls: 24 percent
  
  Boys: 18 percent
• Being pressured to have sex
  
  Girls: 11 percent
  
  Boys: 3 percent

Despite the number of women now in the active military, boys are much more anxious about having to fight in a war -- nearly a quarter of them are concerned about being on the front lines, while less than a tenth of girls are.