Study: Dads can suffer postnatal depression too
Although it occurs most often in mothers, fathers can also suffer postnatal depression and it can influence their children’s early behavior, British researchers said on Friday. Baby boys seem to be particularly affected by depressed dads and have twice as many behavioral problems in their early years as other children.
“Our findings indicate that paternal depression has a specific and persisting detrimental effect on their children’s early behavioral and emotional development,” said Dr. Paul Ramchandani of the University of Oxford.
In a report published in The Lancet medical journal, Ramchandani and his team studied behavior and mental health of 12,800 couples in the first few weeks after the birth of their child and shortly before the children’s second birthday.
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