Among children with no parental history of sleepwalking, 22.5% develop sleepwalking. In comparison, the prevalence of childhood sleepwalking increases to 47.4% for children with one sleepwalking parent, and to 61.5% for children when both parents have a history of sleepwalking (Petit et al., 2015).

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Children who had experienced sleepwalking were more than twice as likely to have parents who also experienced sleepwalking compared to children who had never sleepwalked, spanning the ages from 2 and a half to 13 years.

Similarly, the occurrence of sleepwalking in children was twice as high when either their mother or father had a history of sleepwalking.

Association Between Sleepwalking in Children and Parental History of Sleepwalking

Petit, D. , Pennestri, M. , Paquet, J. , Desautels, A. , Zadra, A. , Vitaro, F. , Tremblay, R. E. , Boivin, M. & Montplaisir, J. (2015). Childhood Sleepwalking and Sleep Terrors. JAMA Pediatrics, 169 (7), 653-658. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.127.

Reference of Association Between Sleepwalking in Children and Parental History of Sleepwalking

Some claimed that there could be some relationship between parental history of sleepwalking and the age at which sleepwalking began in children. Surprisingly, there was no significant difference in the age of onset between children whose parents had no history of sleepwalking and those with parents who did.

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