A couple years ago I remember reading an article that bullying in school has strong epigenetic effects in the children given birth to by bullied people. That realization, that by bullying people you don't just break them, but even hurt their unborn children ...

Gives a whole new meaning to "I'm going to hit you so hard, your kids are gonna feel it."

Could you link to article? I would be really surprised if they had some evidence for causation. I would think that theoretically something like bullying might have large confounders. Basically the likable quarterback doesn't get picked on, but the kid that doesn't fit quite fit in does. And at least some of this is probably genetic.

It could merely influence how that segment of the population raises their children thus having a negative effect.

It is actually more logical that the psychological scars linger and go untreated as the damage is not recognized.

do you have a link or source for this? not doubting you just curious to read more

There has been a lot of sloppy epigenetic studies, here is the sceptical view: https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2015/sep/11/why-im-...

now a blamed bully might argue that correlation != causation.