We often hear about generational trauma—the phenomenon in which traumatic experiences endured by one generation ripple down and affect subsequent generations. Stories of hardship, scarcity ...

Generational trauma is a form of trauma passed down to subsequent generations through environmental factors such as psychological transference and attachment behavior according to attachment theory.

A new study found that the effects of childhood trauma are even more enduring than you might expect — at least for men. The research showed that generational trauma may be passed down from ...