Iowa children face greatest risk of abuse in their earliest years

"...Wilson based her conclusion on her life experience. But research increasingly backs up her observation that family trauma often repeats itself in succeeding generations.

A study that began in the mid-1990s at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego and continues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and in several states, including Iowa, has found overwhelming evidence that early childhood trauma has long-lasting effects into adulthood...."

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20121231/NEWS/312310019/Iowa-children-face-greatest-risk-of-abuse-in-their-earliest-years