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Summer between high school graduation and college is a critical time for preventing risky behaviors – here’s how parents can play a key role

Summer between high school graduation and college is a critical time for preventing risky behaviors – here’s how parents can play a key role

Early summer is a valuable time for parents and young people to prepare for the transition to college in the fall. As first-year college students arrive on campus every fall, a predictable pattern unfolds. Rates of heavy drinking spike, social pressures intensify, and the risk of sexual assault, injury
Beverly Kingston, University of Colorado Boulder, Clara Hill, Washington State University