Dad's mental health linked to kid's well-being

Dads with poor mental health may be impacting the development of their kids, with Australian research linking mental distress in fathers to poorer social-emotional, cognitive, language, and physical development in their kids. The review, which pooled together the results from 84 studies across 48 groups of people, found that these impacts were generally stronger for mental distress after birth than before birth, suggesting that a father's mental state may exert a more direct influence on the developing child after birth.

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