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When children live through a contentious divorce or separation by their parents, the fallout appears to harm their health for decades, even into adulthood, researchers said Monday.<\/p>\n

The study\u00a0involved 201 healthy adults who agreed to be quarantined, exposed to a virus that causes the common cold, and monitored for five days.<\/p>\n

Those whose parents had separated and had not spoken to each other for years were three times as likely to get sick, compared to those whose parents had separated but had stayed in touch as the children grew.<\/p>\n

Previous research has shown that adults whose parents separated during childhood have an increased risk for poorer health.<\/p>\n

The latest study showed that this higher risk of illness is due, at least in part, to heightened inflammation in response to a viral infection, the report said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarly life stressful experiences do something to our physiology and inflammatory processes that increase risk for poorer health and chronic illness,\u201d said Michael Murphy, a psychology postdoctoral research associate at Carnegie Mellon University.<\/p>

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\u201cThis work is a step forward in our understanding of how family stress during childhood may influence a child\u2019s susceptibility to disease 20-40 years later.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study also showed that the adult children of parents who had separated but stayed in touch were no more likely to get sick than the adult children of intact families.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur results target the immune system as an important carrier of the long-term negative impact of early family conflict,\u201d said Sheldon Cohen, a co-author and professor of psychology.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey also suggest that all divorces are not equal, with continued communication between parents buffering deleterious effects of separation on the health trajectories of the children.\u201d<\/p>\n

The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed US journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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