The risk for children of depressed parents to experience a depressive disorder is:
a. about the same as the general population
b. 3 times as likely as the general population
c. 10 times as likely
d. 20 times as likely
B
Children of depressed parents are more than three times as likely as children with nondepressed parents to experience a depressive episode. Most experts assume that, as in adulthood, childhood depression has both biological and psychosocial causation. However, it is unknown how much of this tendency of depression to run in families is genetic and how much is environmental.
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