Voice and Identity: Daughters and Sons of Parents with Psychiatric Experiences

• By: Maggie Jarry, M.Div. Daughters and Sons Initiative
• July 18th, 2025
• advocacy, caregivers, children, family, intergenerational trauma, mental health, mental illness, parenting, peer support, recovery, stigma, Summer 2025 Issue, support
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Parenting with a mental health condition is common, yet widely unsupported. The following statistics may surprise you: according to Joanne Nicholson of Brandeis and Kate Beibel at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, 68% of women and 57% of men with diagnosed psychiatric disorders are...