Ok, I decided that this is too important to risk getting buried in the blame thread, because...it ain't about blame.

Here is an article:

The biochemistry of generational trauma
By Richard Manning | Published: June 29, 2009

a few quotes...

"...First, understand the complicated role of cortisol. It is indeed present in people under stress in higher levels, but it is there for a reason. Cortisol helps us shut down fight and flight, that is, returns the body clenched by stress to a normal state, and this is precisely what people suffering from PTSD or developmental trauma cannot do. Further, we now understand that these people can’t do this, at least in part, because their bodies do not produce cortisol..."

"...The mother was responding to her stress by being overprotective, which was exactly the source of stress Yehuda discovered in second-generation holocaust survivors. Traumatized mothers were frightened mothers, behavior that in turn traumatized their children. One can trace this across generations with low cortisol, as researchers did indeed do with the rats..."

"...Now for the interesting and sobering part for those of us who battle inter-generational trauma. This faulty biochemistry can be inherited by infants in utero. The inheritance is not genetic. It is epigenetic, but physical, hard-wired inheritance, nonetheless. Immediately, this reshapes our story and offers some pretty firm marching orders in regards to how we treat infants of mothers with PTSD..."

Read the whole piece:
http://www.goodworksintrauma.org/blo...tional-trauma/

Your responses, please?