O ne of the most robust and reliable risk factors for the development of depression is having a family member with a history of the disorder (Beardslee et al., 2011;Goodman, 2020). Children of parents who have been diagnosed with a depressive disorder are 3 to 4 times as likely to develop depression and other psychopathology and to have greater academic and social impairment as compared with individuals whose parents have not had depression (Weissman et al., 2016;.An estimated 15 million children in the United States have a parent who has had one or more depressive episodes (England & Sim, 2009). Depression is significantly more common in individuals from lower income levels as compared with higher ones (Miranda & Green, 1999). Across races and ethnicities, about 10% to 12% of U.S. mothers experience a major depressive episode (MDE) per year, resulting in an estimated 10% of all children being exposed to maternal depression each year (Ertel et al., 2011). Estimates of the global prevalence of postpartum depression among women are as high as 17.7% (Hahn-Holbrook et al., 2018), with about 13% of women having a MDE during the first year after giving birth (O'Hara & Swain, 1996). Thus, depression in caretakers is common and can affect the health and well-being of their children.The prevalence of depression is more than 2 times greater in women than in men. Most research on the link between parental depression and children's adjustment has focused on mothers because of their higher rate of depression,