Thursday, February 26, 2015

Children of Mexican Immigrants Have Higher Risk of Behavior Problems

Children of undocumented Mexican immigrants have a significantly higher risk of behavior problems than their co-ethnic counterparts with documented or naturalized citizen mothers, claims a new study. The difficulties come in two forms: sadness or social withdrawal -- what the authors refer to as internalizing behavior problems -- and issues such as aggressiveness towards others -- which the authors call externalizing behavior problems. "To our knowledge, ...

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