Adverse Childhood Experiences: Increased Likelihood Of Socioeconomic Disadvantages For Young Adults.

ABSTRACT: More than 60 percent of US adults report that they had adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). For this study of 930,000 children born during the period 1999-2003, we used linked administrative, survey, and criminal justice data to measure the association between ACEs (parental death; separation; incarceration; or criminal charge for intimate partner violence, substance use disorder, or child sexual or nonsexual abuse) and socioeconomic disadvantages at ages 18-22 during 2017-21. After childhood socioeconomic status was controlled for, young adults with ACEs were more likely to have been charged with felonies, have become teenage parents, live in a household with poverty or housing assistance, be enrolled in Medicaid, and be employed, and were less likely to be enrolled in an educational ins

SUBMITTER: Ratcliff S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11752160 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature