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Firearm injuries are the leading cause of death in kids and teens in the U.S., making gun safety a priority for many families. But new research has found that parents who teach their children ...
Firearms are the leading cause of death among children. A 2023 study in the journal Pediatrics found that gun-related injuries are the leading cause of death for young people in the U.S., with ...
The number of children and teens killed by gunfire in the U.S. jumped 50% between 2019 and 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...
This research has centered primarily around methylation associated with the NR3C1 gene, however research into the epigenetic impact of trauma has extended to other genes, including KITLG. [23] Survivors of war trauma or childhood maltreatment are at increased risk for trauma-spectrum disorders [24] such as PTSD.
Some more recent research has provided support for this; for instance, child abuse has been shown to have a causal role in depression, PTSD, eating disorders, substance abuse and dissociative disorders, [14] and research reveals that the more severe the abuse the higher the probability that psychiatric symptoms will develop in adult life. [15]
Research suggest that certain gun control policies have an impact on rates of gun violence in schools. For example, Anderson and Sabia find that Child-Access-Prevention (CAP) laws decrease the rate of students bringing weapons to school (by about 18.5%) and the rate of students being threatened with weapons at school (by 19%). [26]
Psychological trauma (also known as mental trauma, psychiatric trauma, emotional damage, or psychotrauma) is an emotional response caused by severe distressing events, such as bodily injury, sexual violence, or other threats to the life of the subject or their loved ones; indirect exposure, such as from watching television news, may be extremely distressing and can produce an involuntary and ...
The One Second Collaborative will hold its inaugural Tarrant County Youth Gun Violence Prevention Workgroup Summit on Feb. 2-3 ... Seventeen adolescents or children were killed in shootings in the ...