Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Parents’ Incarceration Can Have Long-Lasting Impact on Kids’ Health

Young adults who had a parent incarcerated during their childhood are more likely to skip needed healthcare, smoke cigarettes, engage in risky sexual behaviors and abuse alcohol and drugs, according to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics.

The findings show that young adults (aged 24-32) whose mothers — as opposed to fathers — had been incarcerated during their childhood were twice as likely to go to the emergency department for medical care rather than to a primary care...


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