Mothers With Borderline Personality Disorder Analysis

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This is my question from the article "Mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder".

Through the article, I have understood that the poor parenting of mothers with BPD negatively affects child's development. It seems to me that the children's outcome including disorganized behaviors, cognitive impairments, and attachment status, parallel the symptoms of BPD, such as a pattern of unstable relationship and severe impulsivity as described in the article. I was wondering if it could be inherited?

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