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Rural kids carrying handguns is ‘not uncommon’ and starts as early as sixth grade

Jake Ellison — Sat, 25 Jan 2020 01:00:19 +0000

Roughly one-third of young males and 1 in 10 females in rural communities have carried a handgun, reports a new �� study. And, the study found, many of those rural kids started carrying as early as the sixth grade. “This is one of the first longitudinal studies of rural adolescent handgun carrying across multiple states in the U.S. It provides evidence that youth handgun carrying in these settings is not uncommon,” said lead author Dr. Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, a UW...

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Community efforts to prevent teen problems have lasting benefits

Kim Eckart — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 15:36:38 +0000

Want to prevent kids from using drugs and make it stick into young adulthood? Get the community involved and intervene before they’re teens, say researchers from the ��. A new, longitudinal study from the UW Social Development Research Group shows that young adults who grew up in communities that used a coordinated, science-based approach to prevention were more likely to have abstained from substance use, violence and other antisocial behaviors through age 21. Researchers at the group,...

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