People who were conceived during the Hongerwinter are now in their seventies, and many of them had children who are also now adults. It was not startling that so many of the survivors had so many health problems, but the fact that their children did too was a surprise. In mammals, epigenetic modifications tend to get reset each generation, but some, very limited, rare epigenetic tags appear to be passed down from parent to child, at least for a couple of generations.
