New research on adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, reveals that 57 percent of children in California have had such experiences, with economic hardship as the most common, followed by divorce, alcohol abuse by caregivers and violence in the household.
The research is the first to compare states and ages of ACEs nationwide, which have long shown to often have lasting and harmful consequences that affect us on physical, emotional and social levels for the rest of our lives.
The new research by Child Trends looked at ACEs of children from birth through age 17, using representative nationwide data from the National Survey of Children's Health, which gathered data from the parents of these children. The Child Trends research estimated the frequency of eight of the most common ACEs between states and between children within age groupings.
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