I am interested to know if there is any existing research that links ACE scores to parenting practices? I wonder if the higher the ACE score, the more likely for risky parenting practices? If so, how can this shape the services parenting supporters like myself deliver services and curriculum? As said in "Resilience"...we cannot just tell parents to talk to their babies and tell them to have routines. We can be doing so much more....
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In the late 1990s, Annette Lareau conducted a study on parenting across social strata. She has updated the book that documents her study, Unequal Childhoods. Even though she didn't intentionally include ACEs in her study, some children in her research did experience ACEs. The second edition, 2011, updates her work with the families and gives a glimpse of how the children, including those who experienced ACEs, are doing as young adults. You can contact Dr. Lareau at 215.898.3515 or alareau@sas.upenn.edu">alareau@sas.upenn.edu
I'll be interested to hear what you learn. I work for Healthy Families America, a family support program. We do talk about ACEs in our core trainings gather much of the same information from new parents. But we don't specifically link ACEs directly to parenting practices.
I'm very interested in this as well. I know that there are some studies that link healthcare utilization of children of parents who have high ACE scores with higher healthcare utilization.
These are just the sorts of things the Parenting with ACEs group is and will continue to discuss, explore and examine.
Cissy
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Hi,
The relationship between ACEs and Parenting is behind the theoretical framework that supports the work of Stephanie Jones, Professor at GSE Harvard):
"SECURe PAC: SECURe for Parents and Children (2014-2015)
Aspen Institute
Working in close collaboration with school- and community-based partners, a team of researchers and program developers at Harvard University is developing, implementing, and evaluating a dual-generation program that supports low-income childrenÂs academic and social- emotional development while simultaneously building skills and social capital among low- income parents. The project involves a combination of targeted school readiness activities for children, as well as adult-focused programming designed to address specific challenges faced by low-income parents. By enhancing the skills and capacities of children and parents together, the goal is to move families toward an inter-generational cycle of opportunity, health, and academic and economic success. (...)"
You cand find more info here: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty/stephanie-jones
By the way, here in Colombia we are finishing a first pilot of a program that seeks to help parents (living in extreme adversity) become a reliable source of physical and emotional protection for the child and to foster the healthy child-parent attachments that promote appropriate affect regulation and healthy emotional development. We are working with the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco to develop, implement, and evaluate this group-based psychosocial intervention. Our work follows the same intuition and evidence: ACEs erode parenting quality.
Best,
Arturo
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I am also VERY interested in this as well. I am currently developing a parenting curriculum with an ACEs lens. I finished my Masters looking at ACEs on future parenting moderated by attachment and mentorship. I am currently looking for measures for the parenting program and ACEs. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you