Seattle, WA: "Understanding childhood trauma"; how parents expose kids to violence and abuse

May 1, 2018, Seattle WA, KUOW: Understanding Childhood Trauma http://kuow.org/post/understanding-childhood-trauma In 1998, researchers from the CDC and Kaiser-Permanente put out a groundbreaking study. They catalogued a variety of what they called ACEs. It stands for “Adverse Childhood Experiences." ACEs included things like sexual or physical abuse, or living in a home with domestic violence or substance abuse. The researchers found that the more ACEs someone has, the higher the chance of all kinds of negative health outcomes — from heart disease to cancer to mental illness. Now the public health community is catching up with this cutting-edge science. Pediatricians, social workers and teachers are asking: Since we know just how damaging childhood traumas are, how do we respond to them? And how can we prevent them in the first place?