64 percent of an insured middle-class population reported at least one adverse childhood experience.

Evidence

“We expected to find, perhaps, 5 or 10 percent of our population with significant childhood adversity. We found 64 percent with at least one adverse childhood experience. We found 12.5 percent with four or more. These are not deprived inner-city patients. These are patients who have health insurance, who can afford to go to a health appraisal clinic, who are — by most conventional measures — the relatively fortunate members of American society. If they have these histories, how much more prevalent must childhood adversity be in populations with less access to care, less stability, less economic security?” — , The Rod and the Child, 9504

Categorization

• XREF: Adds hard prevalence data to earlier chapters on the scale and hiddenness of childhood adversity in ordinary populations.