Imagine a study that showed that “X” causes a sixty percent likelihood of having an autistic child. But wait……there is actually a study like that, and the sample size in the study is 50,000 women.
According to a 2012 report published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry (Nurses’ Health Study II, Roberts, Andrea L. et al) a mother’s experience with childhood abuse could have an effect on the health of her own children. In this study more than 50,000 women were asked about any history of emotional or physical abuse before they were age 12. According to the study women who reported physical, emotional, or sexual abuse when they were young were more likely to have a child with autism compared to women who were not abused. The more severely the women were abused, the higher their chances of having a child with autism compared to women who weren’t abused. Those who endured the most serious mistreatment were 60 percent as likely to have an autistic child.
[For more of this story, written by Irene Tanzman, go to https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...-study-irene-tanzman]
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