Major Childhood Adversities
Childhood Domestic Violence doesn’t typically happen in isolation. If you grew up with CDV, there is a good chance that you also experienced one or more of the other Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE).
Learn more about the ACE Study
- Physical child abuse
- Sexual abuse
- Emotional abuse
- Physical neglect
- Emotional neglect
- Divorced parents
- Parental alcohol or drug abuse
- Mentally ill parent
- Incarceration of a parent
The Number of ACE’s Foretells the Future
The ACE Study discovered that not only do these ACE’s impact a life, but they often co-occur – where there’s one adversity, there’s often more. According to researcher Jeff Edleson, more than 50% of those who experience CDV experience 5 or more other adversities as well.
