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Psychosocial influences

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These include:

  • family structural factors:
    • father in unskilled job
    • large family size
    • child having been in care

  • family functional factors:
    • maternal psychiatric disorder
    • paternal criminality
    • ongoing marital discord

One of the above factors has little effect on risk, two factors increases the risk 2 to 4 fold.


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