Mother’s depression associated with increased risk of child’s antisocial behavior
Significantly higher levels of antisocial behavior were found in seven-year-old children whose mothers were depressed during the child’s first five years of life, according to an article in the February issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
“Children of depressed mothers have elevated conduct problems, presumably because maternal depression disrupts the caregiving environment,” according to background information in the article. Researchers have identified three possible explanations for the association between a mother’s depression and antisocial behavior (ASB) in their children: 1) depressed women are likely to have antisocial personality traits related to depression, 2) are likely to bear children with antisocial men, 3) and the children of depressed mothers may inherit a genetic predisposition for antisocial disorders.
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“Mother’s depression associated with increased risk of child’s antisocial behavior”
Over the years I have had detachment issues with my parents. I am a 25 year old
female and an only child. Recently, a lot of past issues have began to come to the
surface and I am having an internal struggle with resenting my parents for their
past treatment of myself as well as this terrible guilt thing. I feel terribly
and overwhelmingly guilty for past behaviors with them as well as feeling this
strong hurt for them. The two of them had tragic upbringings. They have been so great to
me, but they hurt me so much too. I am struggling terribly with resenting (causing
me to stay away) as well as hurting for them (almost feeling protective of them.) I
do not understand what’s going on here.
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