Protecting unauthorized immigrant mothers improves their children’s mental health
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Protecting unauthorized immigrant mothers improves their children's mental health.
The United States is embroiled in a debate about whether to protect or deport its estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants, but the fact that these immigrants are also parents to more than 4 million U.S.-born children is often overlooked. We provide causal evidence of the impact of parents' unauthorized immigration status on the health of their U.S. citizen children. The Deferred Action for...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.aan5893