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A longitudinal study showed that 45% of females and 50% of males reported having witnessed physical violence between their parents during their childhood. [22] With increased domestic violence observed in the home, Latino children are more likely to express or develop unhealthy coping skills and continue the transmission of violence in their ...
Child Trends was founded in 1979 and in 2014 added the Child Trends Hispanic Institute, [4] [5] now the National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families, with partnership from Duke University, University of North Carolina, and University of Maryland. [6] The organization developed a tool for estimating agencies' kinship diversion practices.
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the largest and oldest Hispanic and Latin-American civil rights organization in the United States. [2] It was established on February 17, 1929, in Corpus Christi, Texas, largely by Hispanics returning from World War I who sought to end ethnic discrimination against Latinos in the United States.
The Troubled-Teen Industry Has Been A Disaster For Decades. It's Still Not Fixed.
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William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb estimate that between 1848 and 1928, at least 597 Mexicans were lynched, [7] of which 64 in areas that lacked a formal judicial system. [7] One particularly infamous lynching occurred on July 5, 1851, when a Mexican woman, Josefa Segovia , was lynched by a mob in Downieville, California .
Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.
Hispanic immigrants living in the United States have been found to have higher levels of exposure to trauma and lower mental health service utilization than the general population. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Those who met the criteria for asylum and experience trauma before migrating are vulnerable to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. [ 2 ]