Six ACE categories are themselves outcomes of parents’ own high ACE scores.

Evidence

Six of the ten ACE categories are not random hazards falling from nowhere. They are outcomes of adult behavior in households. Category six: lived with a household member who abused alcohol or drugs. Substance abuse is, in the ACE Study data, strongly predicted by high ACE scores. The adults who drank — the adults whose drinking gave their children that tick in category six — were statistically high-ACE individuals themselves. Category eight: witnessed mother being treated violently. Perpetrating intimate partner violence is, in the data, significantly predicted by having been physically abused as a child. Category seven: lived with a household member who was depressed or mentally ill. Depression is, in the data, strongly predicted by high ACE scores. — , The Rod and the Child, 7018

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The ACE pyramid is a self-reinforcing intergenerational circuit, not a linear diagram. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7020; High-ACE parents generate high-ACE environments for their children within a single practice — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7084

Related

• High-ACE parents generate high-ACE environments for their children within a single practice (similarity 0.89)
• The ACE pyramid is a self-reinforcing intergenerational circuit, not a linear diagram. (similarity 0.84)
• High ACE scores predict a 31-fold rise in lifetime suicide attempts (similarity 0.84)
• Each additional ACE point raises risk of major adult diseases in graded fashion. (similarity 0.82)
• Childhood adversity dose predicts adult depression, alcoholism, and suicide attempts (similarity 0.81)
• ACE dose-response effects strengthen with higher baseline adversity in other populations (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• High-ACE parents generate high-ACE environments for their children within a single practice #expands (0.80) — , The Rod and the Child, 7084