Science news articles about 'immigrant families'

... for immigrant children, especially those children lacking resources at home. Many children from immigrant families attend public schools with a generally low-performing student body, inadequate ...

... their labels from year to year, suggesting that high school is a time for youths from immigrant families to explore their identities. The study also found that first-generation teens (i.e., those ...

Children from immigrant families are assumed to give up their families' ethnic and cultural background in order to assimilate with American culture...

... , health education programs designed to promote physical activity should target not only children from socially disadvantaged households and neighborhoods but also children in immigrant families."

... at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Despite a 1999 federal ruling that relieved immigrant families of a requirement to repay the U.S. government for Medicaid benefits, immigrant children did ...

... for their sick children, finds a new small study conducted in metropolitan Washington, D.C., where 42 percent of the area's immigrant families are from Asia...

... country. "The articles in this issue examine the psychological experiences of a diverse set of immigrant families and their children who arrive in North America, Europe and Israel from many corners ...