Children Living With Parents With Mental Illness Four Times As Likely To Be Placed In Out-Of-Home Care, Study Finds

Healio (2/8, Weldon) reports, “Children living with parents with mental illness were four times as likely to be placed in out-of-home care than their peers, according to findings from a Swedish study published in Pediatrics.” In the study, researchers “found that children living with mentally ill parents were four times as likely to be placed in OHC than children who were not. The groups most at-risk were children aged 0 to 1 year, children exposed to maternal illness and children exposed to parental intellectual disability.”

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— “Children living with parental mental illness more likely to be placed in out-of-home care,”Rose Weldon, Healio, February 8, 2024

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