Residential school attendance harms the mental health of survivors’ children

Evidence

The community-level findings are unambiguous. In a 2011 study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, Bombay and colleagues examined data from the 2001–2002 Canadian Community Health Survey on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Aboriginal Peoples — a nationally representative sample of 12,083 Aboriginal adults across Canada. The study found that participants with a parent who had attended residential school were significantly more likely to report suicidal ideation and mental health problems than those without a residential school parent, even after adjusting for a range of demographic and socioeconomic confounders. The effect held in analyses controlling for education, income, urban or rural residence, and other variables. — , The Rod and the Child, 7109

Categorization

• XREF: Second-generation effect connects to the intergenerational ACE transmission material from Episode 109 and to Yehuda’s Holocaust offspring findings. — connects to: Residential school harm remains measurable in survivors’ grandchildren — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7110; Residential school harm transmits through behavioral, structural, and biological pathways — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7131; Offspring of trauma survivors show stress biological changes without direct exposure — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7129 (+2 more)

Related

• Residential school harm remains measurable in survivors’ grandchildren (similarity 0.92)
• Residential school harm transmits through behavioral, structural, and biological pathways (similarity 0.85)
• Offspring of trauma survivors show stress biological changes without direct exposure (similarity 0.83)
• Narrative coherence about one’s own childhood predicts whether maltreatment is transmitted (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Residential school harm transmits through behavioral, structural, and biological pathways #expands (0.80) — , The Rod and the Child, 7131
• Residential school harm remains measurable in survivors’ grandchildren #expands (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 7110
• Offspring of trauma survivors show stress biological changes without direct exposure #corroborates (0.70) — , The Rod and the Child, 7129
• Narrative coherence about one’s own childhood predicts whether maltreatment is transmitted #corroborates (0.65) — , The Rod and the Child, 8572