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About Abuse

Abuse comprised of Adverse Childhood Experiences is detrimental to children's health but is reversible!

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Many people assume Abuse means physical violence is happening, but that's not always the case. Abuse comes in many forms—it is not just physical. These videos provide information about the common types of Abuse, red flags, warning signs, and effects on children and adults, so you can better identify them to do something to stop it from happening to yourself or others.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that affect children growing up, such as suffering child maltreatment or living in a household affected by domestic violence, substance abuse, or mental illness. They can involve various forms of physical and emotional Abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction experienced in childhood (ages 0-17). The effects of ACEs are worse if occurring in early childhood (during their formative years 0-5), leading to toxic stress, as poisonous stress from ACEs can change brain development and affect attention, decision-making, learning, and stress response.
Experiences involving:
Domestic Violence

Substance misuse

Mental Illness

Abuse or Neglect

Household Dysfunction

Mother treated violently

Parental separation or divorce

Incarcerated household member

How common are ACEs

Many studies have examined the relationship between ACEs and various known risk factors for disease, disability, and early mortality. In partnership with Kaiser Permanente, the Division of Violence Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a landmark ACE study from 1995 to 1997 with more than 17,000 participants. The study found:

ACEs are prevalent; 28% of study participants reported physical Abuse, and 21% reported sexual Abuse. Many also reported experiencing a divorce or parental separation or having a parent with a mental and or substance use disorder.

ACEs cluster. Almost 40% of the Kaiser sample reported two or more ACEs, and 12.5% experienced four or more because ACEs cluster; many subsequent studies now look at the cumulative effects of ACEs rather than the individual effects of each.

ACEs have a dose-response relationship with many health problems. As researchers followed participants over time, they discovered that a person's cumulative ACE score has a strong, graded relationship to numerous health, social, and behavioral problems throughout their lifespan, including substance use disorders. Furthermore, many issues related to ACEs tend to be comorbid or co-occurring.

Cause & Effect

Children who grow up in an intact, two-parent family with both biological parents do better on a wide range of outcomes than children who grow up in a single-parent family. Although single parenthood is not the only, nor even the most important, cause of the higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, juvenile delinquency, or other adverse outcomes we see, it contributes independently to these problems. Single parenthood also does not guarantee that children will not succeed; many, if not most, children who grow up in a single-parent household do, but in many cases, at a high emotional cost.