How Our Childhood Affects Our Health as Adults

Many scientific researchers will tell you that the ACE Study is specifically for at-risk populations, people who have multiple risk factors such as extreme poverty, severe mental illness, etc., to a point where people are unable to escape the chronic and toxic stress in their lives. But Jane Ellen Stevens of ACEs Too High’s journalistic research delves into the idea–and I believe, fact–that ACEs are not limited to the most disadvantaged of our society, that the effect of ACEs can be felt through all socioeconomic statuses of Western culture. Researchers involved with the ACE Study admit that just one-third of the middle-class population included in the ACE Study had an ACE score of 0.