New Aid for Depression: Grandparents
A wonderful new family link, and depression, of all things, has been found in a new study , according to newswise.com. Relationships between grandparents and adult grandchildren can prevent depression in both. The study shows that grandparents and grandchildren have real, measurable effects on each other’s psychological well-being long into grandchildren’s adulthood, newswise.com reports. “We found that an emotionally close grandparent-adult grandchild relationship was associated with fewer symptoms of depression for both generations,” newswise.com quotes Sara M. Moorman, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and the Institute on Aging at Boston College. “The greater emotional support grandparents and adult grandchildren received from one another, the better their psychological health.” Interestingly, the grandparents who received support from their grandkids but were not able to return it were the most depressed. “There’s a saying, ‘It’s better ...