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 ...

When children are exposed to very challenging experiences, their health suffers. In our recent study, “Adverse Childhood Experiences and Household Food Insecurity: Findings from the 2016 National ...

Children are nearly three-quarters (71%) more likely to develop mental health problems between the ages of 5 and 18, if the firstborn child in their family experienced adversity during their first ...

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the year before and two years after birth in firstborns are associated with an ...

The Childhood Stress study investigated the relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)—including abuse, neglect, and household instability—and current household food security status ...

A new study has found significant levels of childhood trauma continue to impact all communities and across generations in ...

Nonprofit tackling adverse childhood experiences The idea behind "Lead the Fight" is to get the entire community involved and educated on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), so that the whole ...

An important realm that doesn’t get as much attention as is warranted consists of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs ... question-answering agent, the initial prototype includes knowledge ...

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 ...