A new study reveals that the daughters of women exposed to childhood trauma are at increased risk for psychiatric disorders, as compared to their sons who experience no effect.
The study also found that there was no effect on children born to men exposed to childhood trauma, The New York Times reports.
“The most important takeaway is that childhood trauma can be passed on to offspring,” The lead author, Torsten Santavirta, an associate professor of economics at Uppsala University told The New York Times, “and the wrinkle here is that these associations are sex-specific.”
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