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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The Globe and Mail</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Perils await foreign students in Canadian homes, study shows</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Thousands of foreign adolescents arrive in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> to study English every year, and many of them step off a plane into the care of a homestay family. According to new research, they are also stepping into a dangerously unmonitored industry.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Compared with immigrant or Canadian-born Asian students, the researchers found that homestay students in British Columbia are up to six times more likely to take cocaine and three times more likely to binge-drink. They are more sexually active and skip school more often. Nearly a quarter of homestay girls reported being sexually abused, versus 9 per cent of their Canadian peers.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Full story:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/foreign-teen-students-more-likely-to-use-drugs-many-face-abuse-study/article1638282/</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>