Thanks for the comments, everyone. I think I erred in how I phrased my question, leading some to believe that I was implying that divorce is somehow less of a stressor. My point, however, was instead that experiencing parental divorce may be "qualitatively different for many than continued physical abuse" and was using that as an example - you could say the same for all of the ACEs. The idea that was that we are considering every stressor within the ACE survey as having equal weight in a risk formula, so I thought it would be good to discuss that from a scientific perspective.