Daily Telegraph, June 19, 2007
From Boston to Australia come reports about PTSD tracking families. Research at Queensland University, Au., is exploring the legacy of Vietnam leading to parental stress which influences children. "Deaths by suicide amongst Vietnam veteran's children is three times higher than the average," reports the president of the Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia. Sunday's Boston Globe ran the story of a son following his father's footsteps, with duty and trauma from Iraq similar to his father's lingering PTSD from Vietnam.
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