Thursday, September 22, 2011

Risks Seen for Children of Illegal Immigrants

This study finds that children in households with parent(s) here illegally, suffer throughout their lives. That seems obvious to most of us. - - Donna Poisl

By JULIA PRESTON

Children whose parents are illegal immigrants or who lack legal status themselves face “uniformly negative” effects on their social development from early childhood until they become adults, according to a study by four researchers published Wednesday in the Harvard Educational Review.

The study concluded that more than five million children in the United States are “at risk of lower educational performance, economic stagnation, blocked mobility and ambiguous belonging” because they are growing up in immigrant families affected by illegal status.
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