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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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/07/18/parents-incarceration-can-have-long-lasting-impact-on-kids-health/137070.html
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