Question by sunquake31: How much do kids inherit in their personalities after their absent parent?

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Answer by SETH is having nosebleeds galore
Environment is stronger than genes.

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Parents should act if children need help coping

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Kang added that discussing celebrity deaths in sound bites and tweets oversimplifies the complexity of substance abuse and addiction. Kang said parents need to avoid "knee-jerk" reactions when talking to kids about drugs and alcohol and realize …
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Alberta scholarships for queer youth lacking

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A fact sheet released by Rainbow Health Ontario, in partnership with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, states that the risk of suicide in LGBTQ-identified youth is 14 times higher than in their heterosexual counterparts. Additionally …
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Open Book: Lost Girls, by Robert Kolker

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Kim Overstreet, sister of one of the four victims and herself a prostitute, told Kolker, “The money is just as addictive as drugs.” This is … Kolker's examination of the lives of the five victims is relentless, revealing a history of unstable parents …
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Advocacy network works to reunite parents, kids in foster care

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They also offer Helping Other Parents Engage classes, a course about the CPS system. … About 70 percent of Spokane parents with children in the foster system have problems with drug or alcohol abuse, founding SPAN member Ambrosia Eberhardt said.
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