http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/person/1239 Stories and external links referencing a person (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/children-working-class-families-twice-likely-be-depressed-adults <!--paging_filter--><p>Children from low socioeconomic backgrounds have an elevated risk of depression throughout their lifetimes, even if they become more professionally successful than their parents. That's the conclusion of a study conducted by Harvard School of Public Health researcher Stephen Gilman and colleagues. The study also suggests that girls raised in working-class households are more likely to develop depression as adults than boys in similar households. Gilman points out that the majority of participants in the study did not develop depression, indicating that childhood factors are only part of the story of major depression.</p> <p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/culture-society/articles/children-working-class-families-twice-likely-be-depressed-adults">read more</a></p> Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:13:02 -0400 70652986 2972 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu