Adverse Childhood Experiences and a Developmental Cascade of Strained Health across the Life Course

• In Event: Assessing Interventions across the Life Course

Abstract

Objectives: To examine the developmental cascade of maltreated children, including heightened risk for maladaptive behaviors and socio-economic difficulties that he or she may experience, and the manner in which his or her family climate during adulthood may differ compared to a child not exposed to maltreatment.
Methods: Path analyses examined whether parents who report more maltreatment victimization during their own childhood will be more likely to report the use of harsher forms of parenting when their child is in early adolescence, and whether such a linkage is due to parents’ depressive symptoms and substance use in adolescence, which will compromise later socio-economic stability as he/she enters into parenthood, using data from a longitudinal panel study of 531 parents participating in the Rochester Intergenerational Study.

Authors

• Kimberly Henry, Colorado State University

• Celia Fulco, Colorado State University

• Melissa Merrick, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention