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The Transmission of Incompetence

The Offspring of Mentally Ill Women

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The ways in which parents influence the development of their children are many, some quite obvious and direct, others quite subtle and elusive. Socialization and educational practices produce the diversity of human cultural differences in fairly straightforward ways. However, the transmission of the individual differences which characterize mental illness is far from clear.

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Sameroff, A.J., Seifer, R. (1981). The Transmission of Incompetence. In: Lewis, M., Rosenblum, L.A. (eds) The Uncommon Child. Genesis of Behavior, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3773-7_11

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