Depression in fathers and children linked
Washington [US], July 18: According to recent research from Penn State and Michigan State, regardless of whether the dads and children are genetically related, adolescent depression and behaviour issues are on the rise, and parental depression may be contributing to this increase.
According to the study, a lot of research focuses on depression within biologically related families. Adoptive families and blended families now have access to more information.
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Around 720 families taking part in the Nonshared Environment in Adolescent Development (NEAD) study, more than half of those families having a step parent who is responsible for raising children, the researchers examined naturally occurring variations in genetic relatedness between parents and their adolescent children.
According to the sources, there is an environmental transmission of sadness and behaviours between fathers and children. A crucial validation of our findings came from the fact that we still saw these relationships in a sample of "blended" families where the father was biologically related to one participating child but not to the other. We also discovered that a significant portion of this effect seems to be a result of parent-child conflict. These kinds of findings strengthen the case that parent-child conflict influences teenage behaviours in the environment.
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More research on the step and blended families should be done, she thought. They are frequently an underutilized natural experiment from which we could learn more about how to separate the effects of genetic and environmental factors on families.
-PTC News
