Don’t Know Why Your Kid Has Behavioral Problems? Your Own Childhood May Hold Clues

Diana Hembree
7 min readNov 7, 2018
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If you’ve been to your doctor lately, you may heard about the ACEs quiz, a simple tool to measure childhood trauma.

Such trauma includes abuse, neglect, and other severe hardships that researchers call “Adverse Childhood Experiences,” or ACES, which are linked to an increased risk of heart disease, depression, diabetes and…

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Diana Hembree

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