So, preventive measures should focus on screening depressive mothers (during pregnancy, but especially during offspring childhood), providing treatment and support for adequate parental behaviour. (cambridge.org)
And parental behaviour emerges as nothing special: parents look after their children not because they are «theirs», but because they contain copies of many of their own genes. (newscientist.com)
Poor parenting did not lead to a general vulnerability to later life events, and socio - economic status and financial hardship were not implicated in the link between parental behaviour and adult symptoms. (cambridge.org)