Strengthening parent-child relationship trajectories

1. Strengthening parent-child relationship trajectories decrease depressive symptoms in humans.

   “Parents in steadily or rapidly strengthening relationship trajectories reported significantly fewer depressive symptoms than those in persistently strained trajectories.”

   Humansmulti-child families

   The worst tie matters: intergenerational relationship trajectories in multi-child families and depressive symptoms of older parents in China

   The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences·May 20, 2026

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