Friday, April 18, 2014

Can parents pass their trauma on to their kids?

Trauma has a lasting effect, not just on our minds but on our DNA. A new study (conducted in mice) finds that trauma creates a chemical change in a father's sperm and that trauma-related depression persists from parents to children. Read more:

Sperm RNA carries marks of trauma – Utne Altwire

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