Study links poverty to depression among mothers

More than half of babies in poverty are being raised by mothers who show symptoms of mild to severe depression, potentially creating problems in parenting and in child development, according to a new study.

In what was described as the first detailed portrait of its kind, researchers reported that one in nine infants in poverty had a mother with severe depression and that such mothers typically breastfed their children for shorter periods than other mothers who were poor.

To read the entire article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/26/AR2010082600027.html

To view the study:
http://www.urban.org/publications/412199.html