Perils await foreign students in Canadian homes, study shows

[Francis Hult]

The Globe and Mail

 

Perils await foreign students in Canadian homes, study shows

 

Thousands of foreign adolescents arrive in Canada 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.

 

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.

 

Full story:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/foreign-teen-students-more-likely-to-use-drugs-many-face-abuse-study/article1638282/

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