Lone asylum seeking children have experienced high levels of war trauma and need better care / Eurekalert, 23 May 2008
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/icl-las052308.php
"The authors of the research, which is published online this week in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, are calling on governments to ensure that children who arrive in a country on their own are offered appropriate support. The study reveals that lone asylum seeking children are at much greater risk of mental health problems, such as post traumatic stress symptoms, than their accompanied peers. Such children are sent away from their families, or flee their communities, because of persecution, organised violence or war."