“Generational trauma[…]means one generation’s scars affecting four generations or more[…]It also means when we face our own trauma, it colors and deepens what we experience.” Hog and crop farmer, ...

Generational trauma is a form of trauma passed down to subsequent generations through environmental factors such as psychological transference and attachment behavior according to attachment theory.

The following is the second column in a two-part series on generational trauma. These columns were adapted with permission from “Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family’s Hope and the Untold History of the ...