Military youth attending public schools often possess many risk factors also associated with gang membership, including home and school upheaval and alienation from peers.
Although sexual behaviors have been extensively studied among youth in general, they have been relatively understudied among military-dependent youth (MDY).
Among the relatively understudied military-dependent youth population the prevalence of sexual behaviors and the association between these behaviors and unique military stressors such as parental deployment and multiple relocations were analyzed.
Linkages between adverse childhood experiences and long-term consequences in servicemen and servicewomen were examined in relation to family-level resiliency processes predicted to mitigate this link.
Negative childhood experiences may be related to long-term, negative consequences in adulthood. Results from this study found that there are specific types of families who may be vulnerable to experiencing negative consequences as a result of adverse childhood experiences.
Children's empathy and prosocial behavior play an important role in their social competence.
Children and adolescents' empathy and prosocial behaviors are important for their social competency. To explore these variables, adolescents completed questionnaires regarding parent behaviors, parent-child relationships, and their own prosocial behaviors.