Tag Archive: mothers

Grandparenting, Part 5: What happens when parents are stressed?

Many grandparents provide both practical and emotional support to parents. How does that affect parental stress?

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Do depressed moms have depressed kids?

Researchers followed mothers and their children for 15 years to investigate the potential impact of maternal depression on teenage adjustment. What they found was almost as surprising as what they didn’t find.

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Response to alcohol odours and mother's emotions

The June 2008 issue of Alcohol includes a study indicating that children react differently to the smell of alcohol depending on the emotional context of their mother’s drinking. When asked to choose between the odour of beer and an unpleasant odour, kids whose mothers were classified as “escape drinkers” were more likely to choose the [...]

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