By Jane Roberts, Daily Memphian, August 24, 2020
Early evidence trickling in at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital forms the outer boundaries of just how different life is in many Memphis homes now, including a 250% increase in self-reported depression or mental illness among adults and a 350% increase in violence in their homes and neighborhoods.
What that constant stress means for children, including how it affects brain and social development, is well documented in extensive research of adverse childhood experiences.
ACEs are traumatic experiences before age 18. They include all types of abuse, neglect and parental mental illness, but also substance use in the home, divorce, incarceration of a caregiver and domestic violence.
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