Dr. Roselind Lieb, from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, along with her associates followed a representative community sample of 933 teenagers, who were between 14 and 17 years old in 1995 along with their mothers. Suicidal thoughts without attempts was reported by 31.9 percent of mothers and 31.6 percent of offspring, and corresponding rates of actual suicide attempts were 2.3 percent and 5.0 percent.
Upon analysis, the likelihood of suicidal thoughts was about five times higher among the children of mothers who had attempted suicide, while the rate of suicide attempts was nine times higher, according to a report from Reuters Health.
