Nearly 35 million U.S. children have experienced one or more types of childhood trauma

In the CDC’s ACE Study, the ten types of childhood adversity measured were:

 

• physical, sexual, verbal abuse
• physical and emotional neglect
• a parent who’s an alcoholic (or addicted to other drugs) or diagnosed with a mental illness
• witnessing a mother who experiences abuse
• losing a parent to abandonment or divorce
• a family member in jail

Nearly 35 million U.S. children have experienced one or more types of childhood trauma.