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Weight Gain Worry for Stressed Black Girls: Stress and Weight More Strongly Linked in Black Girls Than White Counterparts
September 19, 2012 — Could the impact of chronic stress explain why American black girls are more likely to be overweight than white girls? Higher levels of stress over 10 years predict greater increases in body weight ... > full story -
Prejudice Can Cause Depression at the Societal, Interpersonal, and Intrapersonal Levels
September 18, 2012 — Although depression and prejudice traditionally fall into different areas of study and treatment, a new article suggests that many cases of depression may be caused by prejudice from the self or from ... > full story -
Children of Immigrants Are Coming out Ahead of Their Peers, U.S. Study Finds
September 13, 2012 — Children of immigrants are outperforming children whose family trees have deeper roots in the United States, learning more in school and then making smoother transitions into adulthood, according to ... > full story -
New Photo ID Laws May Impact Elections, Hurt Minority Turnout
September 12, 2012 — Election turnout among young people of color, including African Americans, Latinos and Native Americans, may drop by nearly 700,000 voters in states with new photo ID laws, a decline that could ... > full story -
Race, Ethnicity Affect Likelihood of Finding a Suitable Unrelated Stem Cell Donor for Cancer Patients
September 11, 2012 — Researchers have published a study describing the greater difficulty in finding matched, unrelated donors for non-Caucasian patients who are candidates for hematopoietic cell ... > full story -
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Children's Health, Access to Care Differ by Parents' Immigrant Status
September 11, 2012 — Research has found that children's health and access to health care services differ according to the immigrant status of their parents. A new study examined the health status of more than 46,000 ... > full story -
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Comparison of Immigrant Children in Four Nations Shows Strengths, Lags
September 11, 2012 — Young children whose families immigrate to Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States are as prepared and capable of starting school as their native-born counterparts, with one ... > full story -
Parents' Education Before Migrating Tied to Children's Achievement
September 11, 2012 — Immigrant parents' education before migrating is more strongly tied to their children's achievement in the United States than any other parental attribute, either before or after migration. These are ... > full story -
Children of Immigrants Have Advantage in Academics, School Engagement
September 11, 2012 — A new study finds that children of immigrants have an advantage over children of native-born Americans when it comes to the transition to adulthood. The study followed 10,795 children ages 13-17 ... > full story -
Mixed Findings Emerge on Immigrant Families' Home Environments
September 11, 2012 — A nationally representative study of more than 5,000 homes found mixed strengths in the social-emotional and early learning practices of Latino immigrant, Asian immigrant, and native-born white ... > full story
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