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Friday, July 22 HealthDay News) - teenagers who have a parent in the military are binge more likely as the civilian population of children - drink, drugs and perform poorly in school, suggests a new study.

If a parent to war may be more at risk as a girl, reported researchers at the University of Washington School of public health goes, young people most threatened and young.

"There are a lot of research about veterans and active duty soldiers, and how they deal with or fight when they return from a deployment of" study author Sarah C. Reed said in a press release of the University. "These studies suggested that rightly are tip of the iceberg as families and their children do."

In 2007 had almost 2 million children in the United States serve at least one parent in the military. Previous research has found that teenagers' healthy development, including the identification of a sense by itself, may be interrupted during a parent active military service.

Media representations of and the need, additional responsibilities take on their ability to impact can the researchers said.

In carrying out this study published online in the American Journal of public health, researchers survey data on more than 10,000 young people in 8, 10 and 12 types compiled.

They found that risk for depression and suicidal thoughts 8th grade against used girls with parents. In the meantime teenager in all three grades were more likely to have low quality of life, abusing drugs and alcohol and academic fight.

"We need to find out, more of what is going on within families and children and what is going to be helpful to mitigate the difficult things-including risky behaviors of instruments-what happens in families," Reed said.

A way to reach the troubled teens military parents would be to strengthen and streamline support groups for high risk population, the study came to the conclusion.

The researchers said they work at school on a follow-up study combat to investigate weapons possession and gang membership among young people who have provided parents.

--Mary Elizabeth Dallas

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Source: University of Washington, press release, July 21, 2011

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