Mental Illness In Children
Children who have a severely mentally ill parent are almost nine times more likely to be victims of homicide than children who have healthy parents, Dutch researchers have found. The scientists also found that the children were at greater risk of being murdered if one of their parents had schizophrenia or a mood disorder, and the risk was even higher if it was the mother who was affected. But researchers say the murder risk is still extremely low, about one child in every 2,000 with a parent...
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