By Amanda B. Keener, Knowable Magazine, January 25, 2021
Before you were 18, did a parent or other adult in your household ever push, grab, shove or slap you?
Was a household member depressed or mentally ill?
Did a household member go to prison?
These are just a sampling of the questions asked in a landmark study of 17,337 middle-aged adults that began in the late 1990s. The work showed researchers for the first time just how common adverse childhood experiences, as they’re termed, truly are: Nearly two-thirds of the group of mostly white, middle-class people from the San Diego area had experienced at least one type of physical or psychological trauma included in the survey. Twelve percent had been through four or more.
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