Crushing the future of the young

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Abused children, risk of depressed adults

NEW YORK, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- People who were abused and neglected during childhood have a higher risk of major depression when they become young adults, finds a U.S. study.

Study leader Cathy Spatz Widom and colleagues conducted a prospective study to determine whether abused and neglected children were at elevated risk of major depressive disorder, or MDD, and psychiatric illness, compared with matched control subjects when followed up into young adulthood.

The study, which was conducted while Widom was at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, included 676 children with substantiated cases of physical and sexual abuse and neglect before the age of 11. They were matched based on age, race, sex and approximate family social class with 520 non-abused and non-neglected children. All were followed up into young adulthood -- average age: 28.7, according to Widom, now at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

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EXTERNAL CONFLICTS are HARD ENOUGH but INTERNAL or CONFLICT IN THE INSIDE DESTROY the MEANS of dealing with CONFLICTS on the OUTSIDE.
 

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