An ACE Up Your Sleeve

Chris Engel 5/28/135:58 PM

This article was written by ACEsConnection member Laura Strom.

"Are you an adult with a chronic illness or pain? Did you get this condition out of the blue? Did you come down with a disability or illness that has you taking medication daily? Your health challenges are linked to events that happened in your childhood – there is an ACE hiding somewhere.

"Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs) are proportionally related to adult medical health problems....

"In Sweden, they had a pretty high child abuse death rate when they enacted a ban on spanking in 1979. Guess how many children died from child abuse and neglect in Sweden last year? Zero. Now guess how many died here in America? Four or five children died every single day of child abuse and neglect in the US in 2011. Those are shameful statistics...."

http://healdsburg.patch.com/groups/laura-stroms-blog/p/an-ace-up-your-sleeve-the-surprising-story-behind-adult-illness-and-disability

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