Residential school harm remains measurable in survivors’ grandchildren

Evidence

A subsequent study, published in Transcultural Psychiatry in 2014, found that the effect was detectable in the third generation as well: grandchildren of residential school survivors showed elevated rates of depression and suicidal ideation compared to Aboriginal respondents without residential school family history, after controlling for the intermediate generation’s own experiences. The signal was attenuating — the third-generation effect was smaller than the second-generation effect — but it was present. Three generations after the residential school, the wound was still measurable in survey data. — , The Rod and the Child, 7110

Categorization

• XREF: Third-generation persistence parallels the Holocaust-offspring evidence and extends the Episode 109 intergenerational ACE findings. — connects to: Residential school attendance harms the mental health of survivors’ children — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7109; Residential school harm transmits through behavioral, structural, and biological pathways — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7131; Narrative coherence about one’s own childhood predicts whether maltreatment is transmitted — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 8572 (+2 more)

Related

• Residential school attendance harms the mental health of survivors’ children (similarity 0.92)
• Residential school harm transmits through behavioral, structural, and biological pathways (similarity 0.86)
• Offspring of trauma survivors show stress biological changes without direct exposure (similarity 0.81)
• 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
• Offspring of trauma survivors show stress biological changes without direct exposure #corroborates (0.70) — , The Rod and the Child, 7129
• Childhood physical punishment leaves measurable biological traces decades later #corroborates (0.65) — , The Rod and the Child, 8515
• Narrative coherence about one’s own childhood predicts whether maltreatment is transmitted #qualifies (0.50) — , The Rod and the Child, 8572