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Its estimated that as many as five million kids have had a parent or sibling serve in Iraq or Afghanistan since 9/11. Ron Avi Astor, professor of social work at the University of Southern California, said, The vast majority of the kids and families, even with a lot of deployments and a lot of moves, about 70 percent or more depending on the issue youre looking at, are doing fine. But Astor says the other thirty percent -- up to a million and a half kids -- are not doing fine. He studied 30,000 high school students in eight California school districts. Particularly troubling: Astor found one out of four military kids is likely to consider suicide -- significantly more than non-military kids. Please like and share this story. Its not just the vets who suffer, its also their children that we need to help.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 20:31:46 +0000

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