In the past 30 years, increasing evidence shows that adverse childhood experiences (often referred to as "ACEs") can have lingering effects, impacting people's health and life outcomes for decades to come.
Because surviving a difficult childhood has such powerful lifelong repercussions, many institutions—from courts to medical clinics—rely on a brief, 10-question ACE questionnaire to determine people's childhood hardships. The higher the score, the more likely someone is to show its effects, including chronic disease, depression, and addiction.
But two Bowdoin researchers are arguing that the ACE survey, though vitally important, has serious limitations that must be examined.
[For more on this story by Rebecca Goldfine, go to https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2...erse-childhoods.html]
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