A recent study shows that depression in a mother can profoundly affect the psychological health of her children. Using oxytocin levels and mother-child synchrony as markers of resilience, the study concluded that a mother’s depression affects her child’s psychopathology across the first decade of life. The mental health of parents has a profound effect on the development of children. Depression of parents can have an impact on the development of the brain in children, thereby affecting their learning abilities.
Such children may grow up to have severe psychological problems later in life. A recent study published in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry shows that maternal depression can affect the psychopathology of children for the first decade of his life. Previously, maternal depression was never known to carry long-term effects on children, and very few studies have been…
