The Center for Hunger-Free Communities recently published an article, The Relationship between Child Adversity and Food Insecurity: It's Like a Bird Nesting in Your Head, in Public Health Nutrition.
This article describes the results of the Childhood Stress study, which investigates the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) including neglect, abuse, and household instability and current household food insecurity.
In this study, we interviewed thirty-one female caregivers of children under the age of four who reported low or very low household food security. Two-thirds of the mothers interviewed reported four or more Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Mothers who reported very low food security, a more severe form of food insecurity which includes limiting their food intake, disordered eating patterns, and experiences of hunger, were more likely to report four or more ACEs.
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