A new report from Washington State University shows that the amount and type of adversity experienced in childhood by the adult population of a community has a negative effect on the performance and well-being of the community’s children.
Hundreds of peer-reviewed research studies have consistently supported the role of those adverse childhood experiences – such as physical abuse and neglect – as being the single most powerful predictor of health and well-being in those adults, the report says, but less has been known about the relationship between adults with adverse childhood experiences and the effects of those experiences on the well-being of the children.
“While poverty continues to be an influence on youth well-being, the community and adverse childhood experiences by the young people themselves are more consistent predictors of youth well-being,” said Christopher Blodgett, director of the Washington State University Area Health Education Center in Spokane, which prepared the report.
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