Medscape (9/18, Brauser, Subscription Publication) reports, “Parental incarceration is associated with a significantly increased risk of mental illness in offspring that can start in childhood and extend into adulthood,” research indicated. In the study, which involved “more than 1400 participants,” investigators found that “children of incarcerated parents were twice as likely to have a childhood diagnosis of depression,” attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, “and conduct disorder compared with their counterparts whose parents did not serve jail time.” The findings were published online Aug. 23 in JAMA Network Open.
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