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I am interested to know if there is any existing research that links ACE scores to parenting practices?  I wonder if the higher the ACE score, the more likely for risky parenting practices?  If so, how can this shape the services parenting supporters like myself deliver services and curriculum?  As said in "Resilience"...we cannot just tell parents to talk to their babies and tell them to have routines.  We can be doing so much more....

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In the late 1990s, Annette Lareau conducted a study on parenting across social strata. She has updated the book that documents her study, Unequal Childhoods. Even though she didn't intentionally include ACEs in her study, some children in her research did experience ACEs. The second edition, 2011, updates her work with the families and gives a glimpse of how the children, including those who experienced ACEs, are doing as young adults.  You can contact Dr. Lareau at 215.898.3515 or alareau@sas.upenn.edu">alareau@sas.upenn.edu

I'm very interested in this as well. I know that there are some studies that link healthcare utilization of children of parents who have high ACE scores with higher healthcare utilization.

These are just the sorts of things the Parenting with ACEs group is and will continue to discuss, explore and examine.

Cissy 

Hi,

The relationship between ACEs and Parenting is behind the theoretical framework that supports the work of Stephanie Jones, Professor at GSE Harvard):

"SECURe PAC: SECURe for Parents and Children (2014-2015)
Aspen Institute
Working in close collaboration with school- and community-based partners, a team of researchers and program developers at Harvard University is developing, implementing, and evaluating a dual-generation program that supports low-income children’s academic and social- emotional development while simultaneously building skills and social capital among low- income parents. The project involves a combination of targeted school readiness activities for children, as well as adult-focused programming designed to address specific challenges faced by low-income parents. By enhancing the skills and capacities of children and parents together, the goal is to move families toward an inter-generational cycle of opportunity, health, and academic and economic success. (...)"

You cand find more info here: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty/stephanie-jones 

By the way, here in Colombia we are finishing a first pilot of a program that seeks to help parents (living in extreme adversity) become a reliable source of physical and emotional protection for the child and to foster the healthy child-parent attachments that promote appropriate affect regulation and healthy emotional development. We are working with the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco to develop, implement, and evaluate this group-based psychosocial intervention. Our work follows the same intuition and evidence: ACEs erode parenting quality.

Best,

Arturo

This is good stuff. I have worked with families in a parent educator type role for nearly 20 years using a variety of models and curriculum. I firmly believe we need to promote change on an inter-generational level and we need to instill the sense that as a parent, we have the tremendous responsibility of raising an adult. And as an adult, we carry many things that will impact our parenting. How do we balance the two roles so that they impact each other in a positive way. It’s not unusual while parenting to have something creep up from our memory and show in our behavior – typically subconsciously, sometimes negatively. As they say, the way we were parented will shape the choices we make as parents. I’ll check out the site and thank you.

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