The most important yet completely ignored takeaway from the ACE Study is that many adverse childhood experiences could be prevented by an entirely new kind of parenting education that reaches everyone, everywhere... and it goes without saying that it would also promote positive childhood experiences.
Public health authorities like the American Academy of Pediatrics, the CDC, the NIH, and the Harvard Center on the Developing Child should put together a list of parenting behaviors and practices generally recognized as supporting the healthy development of children. Then these organizations should partner with the Ad Council to create public service announcements to communicate these behaviors and practices to the public. I’m thinking billboards especially…radio and television too. These psa’s would not have an end date. They would become a permanent fixture of our culture. In manufacturing there’s a concept called continuous quality improvement. Well, this would be an effort to continuously improve the quality of parenting. Our children and our children’s children deserve nothing less.