Father

This week marks Men’s Health Week, and in conjunction with this observance, Healio Psychiatry has compiled a list of articles covering important developments in men’s mental health research.

Children whose fathers have poor mental health are more than twice as likely also to have poor mental health, according to findings published in Health Equity.

Alcohol consumption of would-be parents may be a significant risk factor for the development of congenital heart disease in their subsequent children, according to a study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

Children born to older parents are less likely to have externalizing behavior problems, according to a population-based cohort study that included more than 32,000 Dutch children. Researchers also found that parental age may have no effect on a child’s internalizing problems.

We recently buried my mother-in-law, Helen S. Sakosky, in a cemetery located in her childhood home of greater Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. Helen possessed a formidable spirit and the life she lived conveyed many useful lessons, quite applicable to our vocation of orthopedic surgery.