TY - JOUR T1 - Down's syndrome children and parental psychological upset JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 87 LP - 90 VL - 34 IS - 259 AU - J. C. Murdoch AU - S. A. Ogston Y1 - 1984/02/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/34/259/87.abstract N2 - A prospective morbidity study of the parents of Down's children and the parents of control children matched for age, sex, family size and social class failed to demonstrate any difference in the incidence of psychosis, psychoneurosis or self-poisoning referred to the general practitioner. It is suggested that the common assumption that Down's syndrome and parental anxiety are inevitably associated is questionable ER -