This post is part of a series on adverse childhood experiences. Read the other parts here. She’d been a straight-A student who loved learning; a popular gymnast, cheerleader, and student council ...

The adverse childhood experience (ACE) questionnaire has become a critical part of public health. It offers physicians a screening tool to evaluate patients, gaining valuable insights into their ...

Part I tells how Malory Ruesch went from honor student to heroin addict, turning to drugs to cover the pain of her father’s abandoning her and living with an alcoholic mother. As she was about to be ...

A new analysis suggests that specific patterns of childhood hardship are linked to faster biological aging in women later in ...

Childhood abuse or family instability can significantly cut your savings later in life, but certain retirement strategies and programs like Social Security and SNAP may help offset the gap.

I, Setareh Harsamizadeh Tehrani, remember the sound of my parents fighting when I was a child, glasses shattering. I was experiencing something known as an adverse childhood experience, but I didn’t ...

The first-of-its-kind study, published in The Lancet Public Health and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research Policy Research Programme, found that mothers whose firstborns had ...