"Stressed parents make kids ill!"

PARENTS! - Get a life! Get therapy! Free yourself up emotionally, sexually, creatively... if only for your kids sake! Please!

Here are some excerpts from a University of Rochester study (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7302955.stm) reported by the BBC:

"Parents with stressful lives may be making their children as well as themselves vulnerable to illness, research suggests. A University of Rochester study, reported by New Scientist, found sickness levels were higher in children of anxious or depressed parents. It also found links between stress and immune system activity in the children. It has long been known that stress can cause immune system changes that make a person more prone to infections and other illnesses. However, the new study, first published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity, is the first to provide evidence that the problem can be transmitted from parent to child.
"The researchers, led by Dr Mary Caserta, followed the parents of 169 children over a three-year period, with the parents recording instances of childhood illness, before undergoing six-monthly psychiatric evaluations. The total number of illnesses was significantly higher in the children of parents with higher levels of 'emotional stress."