How Parents' Depression Affects Kids' Grades
https://www.auntydebbysblog.com/2016/02/how-parents-depression-affects-kids.html
Children perform worse in school when their parents are diagnosed with depression, suggests a study from Sweden.
The study found a significant negative link between parents’ depression and kids
We
obviously know that depression is a bad thing like any other mental
health outcome, so for parents
or guardians, a vulnerable population would be their children.
Previous
studies found children with depressed parents are more likely to have
problems with brain development, behavior and emotions, along with other
psychiatric problems. Few studies have looked at school performance, however.
Three
percent of the mothers and about 2 percent of fathers were diagnosed
with depression before their children finished their last required year
of school, which occurs around age 16 in Sweden.
Overall,
when parents were diagnosed with depression during their children’s
lifetime, the kids’ grades suffered.
A mother’s depression appeared to
affect daughters more than sons, this was noted.
On
the range of factors that influence a child’s school performance, parental depression falls between a family’s economic status and
parental education, which is one of the biggest factors in determining a
child’s success in school.
The
researchers caution that depression may have been under measured in the
population. Also, they can’t say that a parent’s depression actually
causes children to perform worse in school.
Therefore,it is necessary that parents need to be treated and sometimes treatment of children is inclusive, but starting with the parents first is expedient since they cause the depression.
Research
suggests that depression may run in families.