Editorial: Using Parent’s Past to Predict Children’s Future: Testing Parental History of Mental Disorders as a Predictor of Outcomes in Children With Disruptive Behavior

This editorial of the "Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry" mentions the ACTION project and this paper: Children With Early-Onset Disruptive Behavior: Parental Mental Disorders Predict Poor Psychosocial Functioning in Adolescence.

Numerous studies show that children with conduct problems are at risk of experiencing poor economic, social and health outcomes as they grow older. Risk for poor outcomes is particularly high for children who first display conduct problems at a young age, before age 10 years. However, even among this high-risk group of children, there is considerable heterogeneity in life outcomes. Approximately a third of children with early-onset conduct problems will follow a trajectory of life-course persistent antisocial behavior, along with marked functional impairment.