Much has been written about maternal postnatal depression: it affects the quality of infant care and may lead to problems with the child’s later social, behavioural, cognitive, and physical development. By contrast, fathers have been relatively ignored. Data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) in southwest England have been used to measure the effects on children of paternal depression in the postnatal period (Paul Ramchandani and colleagues. … OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science