report shows. <\/a><\/p>\nWhen a teenager from East Baltimore was asked to describe his neighborhood, he spoke of \u201cbig rats going around in people\u2019s trash, vacant houses full of squatters and needles on the ground.\u201d <\/p>\n
A young woman in New Delhi, asked the same question, described the dirt and the \u201cdirty water found lying on the roads,\u201d while a young man in Ibadan, a large city in Nigeria, spoke of the smell of urine and streets \u201clittered with paper and other refuse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you look at how they perceive their environments, kids in both Baltimore and Johannesburg are fearful. They don\u2019t feel safe from violence,\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is something we didn\u2019t really see in other cities. In Shanghai, for example, there wasn\u2019t a great deal of violence. You\u2019d ask kids about their safety concerns, and they would say something like, \u2018I\u2019m afraid of crossing a busy street.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is something we didn\u2019t really see in other cities. In Shanghai, for example, there wasn\u2019t a great deal of violence. You\u2019d ask kids about their safety concerns, and they would say something like, \u2018I\u2019m afraid of crossing a busy street.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
“When you think about poor adolescents, you may instantly think of a child in Africa because there are poorer countries there, but it\u2019s not really the country that is important,\u201d Mmari says. \u201cRight here in Baltimore, we have kids who are much worse off than those in African cities. The inner-city kids who are exposed to all this violence are who we should be thinking about.\u201d<\/p>\n
Study via: Journal Of Adolecent Health<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baltimore, located in the world\u2019s richest nation and just 40 miles from the White House, children exhibited considerably high rates of mental health issues, substance abuse, sexual risk-taking, sexual violence and teen pregnancy. This, compared to adolescents in New Delhi exhibited far fewer of those behaviors and outcomes, despite residing in a much less prosperous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":20232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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