The term "adverse childhood experience" refers to a range of negative situations a child may face or witness while growing up. These experiences include emotional, physical, or sexual abuse ...

Mothers' traumatic childhoods may impact children with ADHD or autism. Researchers urge more holistic family support.

Adverse childhood experiences are associated with substantially higher risk for earlier menarche and pubertal onset in girls ...

Researchers at Rutgers University have found that adverse childhood experiences can make people more sensitive to potential threats from others, which in turn increases their risk of engaging in ...

In the original study of childhood experiences, begun in 1995 by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Kaiser Permanente, two-thirds of the more than 17,000 subjects who filled out ...