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Kids' Risky Behaviors a Concern in Some Military Families [Consumer.Healthday.com]

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Children in U.S. military families are more likely to engage in risky behaviors and to be bullied than those in civilian families, a new study finds.

Researchers surveyed about 688,000 middle and high school students in California in 2013, including more than 54,000 who lived in a military family.

Compared to those in civilian families, children in military families were more likely to report alcohol use (45 percent vs. 39 percent); physical bullying such as being punched, kicked, or slapped (36 percent vs. 27 percent); and non-physical bullying such as being the target of jokes, rumors or online harassment (66 percent vs. 59 percent).

The study, published Aug. 17 in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, also found that kids in military families were more likely to take a gun or knife to school. Fights and fear of being beaten up were more common among military-related children as well.

 

[For more of this story go to http://consumer.healthday.com/...families-702338.html]

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