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People with parents who were violent to each other are more likely to have mental health problems when they grow up, reveals research published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Researchers looked at what impact interparental violence had on people as children by observing their mental health outcomes in adulthood. A child being exposed to interparental violence is a form of maltreatment with consequences for a child’s development, but in some countries it is only seen as a risk factor for later problems with no specific outcomes. The authors studied 3,023 adults in the Paris metropolitan area in 2005 by carrying out at-home face to face interviews. After adjusting for family and social level stressors, the researchers found that people who were exposed to interparental violence had a 1.4 times higher risk of having depression, were more than three times more likely to be involved in conjugal violence, were almost five times more likely to mistreat their own child and 1.75 times more likely to have a dependence on alcohol.