relationship between parental depression and children’s developmental outcomes. Results suggest that parental depression when … children are 12 months old, particularly maternal depression, leads to less favorable behavioral but not cognitive outcomes … children’s behavior, and attenuate the negative consequences of episodic but not chronic maternal depression. This research …

strong link between maternal depression and the following parenting behaviors: neglect, psychological aggression, physical … assault, engagement, and parenting stress. Fixed-effects models, however, show that maternal depression is only predictive of … neglect and parenting stress, suggesting some negative consequences of depression is driven by variation across individuals or …