A father’s depression—not just a mother’s—during the first years of parenting can put toddlers at risk of developing troubling behaviors such as hitting, lying, anxiety, and sadness.
A new study is one of the first to show that a father’s depression from postpartum to toddlerhood has the same effect on children as a mother’s.
Previous studies that have focused mostly on mothers with postpartum depression have shown that their symptoms may affect children’s behavior during their early, formative years.
