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Re:Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children by kadenwolff on Monday June 20, 2022 @12:11AM (#31806199)
This seems like a bit of a misrepresentative title. It's been well known for a long time that stress during pregnancy (high cortisol levels particularly) has a negative effect on the child's mental health throughout their whole life. Labeling this as epigenetic trauma feels like stretching the definition in a motte and bailey kind of way.
Re:Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children by bobviolier on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:20AM (#31807651)
If giving your opinion, make sure you read the whole article. For example:

"It suggested that trauma might have affected the mothers' eggs decades before her children were conceived, while she was herself a child."

"They gave a male mouse a mild electric shock as it smelled a cherry blossom scent, stimulating a fear response to the odor. The response was accompanied by epigenetic changes in its brain and sperm. Intriguingly, the male offspring of the shocked mice demonstrated a similar fear of cherry blossoms—as well as epigenetic changes in their brain and sperm—without being exposed to the shock. These effects were passed down for two generations. In other words, the lesson the grandfather mouse learned, that the cherry blossom scent means danger, was transmitted to its son and grandson."

Re:Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children by kbelder on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @07:59PM (#31830519)
>"Intriguingly, the male offspring of the shocked mice demonstrated a similar fear of cherry blossoms—as well as epigenetic changes in their brain and sperm—without being exposed to the shock. These effects were passed down for two generations. In other words, the lesson the grandfather mouse learned, that the cherry blossom scent means danger, was transmitted to its son and grandson."

It's going to take multiple teams replicating that before I even start to believe that claim.

Re:Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children by wyre on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:04AM (#31806470)
Did you read the article? The author's research shows that trauma creates epigenetic changes.