Psychology Today | 22.08.2026 19:35
When we talk about how a parent's mental health shapes a child, we tend to picture something behavioral. We might picture a father who withdraws or struggles to be present, or who models a particular relationship with sadness or anxiety that his children absorb over years of watching him. A review published this month in Neurobiology of Disease suggests it’s significantly incomplete (Ren and colleagues, 2026).
