RT Journal
A1 Dozier M, Peloso E
T1 THe role of early stressors in child health and mental health outcomes
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2006
FD December 1
VO 160
IS 12
SP 1300
OP 1301
DO 10.1001/archpedi.160.12.1300
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.160.12.1300
AB 
Starting out life with a depressed or an abusive parent appears to make a number of issues challenging for children. Infants are dependent on caregivers for help with regulating behavior, physiological state, and emotions. With development, children increasingly take over these functions themselves. When a caregiver is unresponsive (as often happens with a depressed caregiver) or frightening (as often happens with a maltreating caregiver), children may not receive the help they need in taking over these regulatory functions. There has been strong evidence that these and other early environmental risk factors place children at increased risk for a host of psychological and social problems.1- 3 Flaherty et al4 found that early adversity is also associated with problematic child health outcomes.