Poor Parenting Can Be Passed From Generation to Generation: Study (www.nbcnews.com)

Christine Cissy White 10/31/167:29 AM

This article was published earlier this year but it's new to me. It was written by Maggie Fox. To me, it shows the need for trauma-informed peer parenting education for, with and by parents. Here's an excerpt:

We found that 91 percent of parents had at least one adverse childhood experience, while 45 percent had four or more," Conn said in remarks prepared for her presentation. "And among their young children, 72 percent had already experienced at least one adverse childhood experience."
When parents had four or more of these bad experiences, their children were nearly six times more likely to already be showing signs of social or emotional problems, Conn and colleagues found.
The parents are not clueless, Conn stressed. "When you interview parents, they are aware their past experiences affect their parenting," she said.
What they are not sure about is what to do, and what not to do.
"It's hard to break patterns of behavior. You were brought up in an adverse environment and that is what you know," Conn said.

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Christine Cissy WhiteIt's not trauma-informed unless it's informed by trauma survivors.

Krys: The article I read and excerpted from is linked (at the start of the blog post in the light blue). Cissy

11/1/165:16 PM

Christine Cissy WhiteIt's not trauma-informed unless it's informed by trauma survivors.

Krys:

You ask great questions and that suggestion is great. Do you want to make it a discussion question here and in Parenting with ACEs? I think that will invite wider discussion from the community in both places.

Plus,I can compile responses and add them as resources to Parenting with ACEs so we can make this info. more accessible for others.

BTW: When I do talk about ACEs I ask people to think about what the score of their loved ones (parents, friends, partner, kids) as well as our own scores. But, how often this is formally done and specifically as it relates to kids and parents, I am not sure.

Cissy

11/1/165:15 PM

Krys CooperMember

P.S. Is this the full text of the referenced article/story?

11/1/169:12 AM

Krys CooperMember

Thanks for this post. Just yesterday, I was just thinking about the implications of parental trauma in terms of the ACES study and survey. Is there any data available regarding the impact of parental trauma on a child's ACES? Do children who have a high # of ACES (6+) also have parents with a high #? Do children with a high # of ACES have parents with a history of significant trauma?

What would the data show if an 11th factor were added to the 10 ACES? For example:

"11. Did a parent or primary caregiver experience a significant traumatic event, such as being deployed in military combat, held hostage, go "missing" (or was among the "disappeared" in the case of Central/South America and South East Asia) living in a war-torn community, being part of a genocide-targeted group, refugee status, etc.?"

I'd be very interested to know whether this type of research has already taken place. While I know that the legacy of trauma is often passed from generation to generation, I'd be curious to see whether adding this to the data collection for ACES was attempted or could be of significant value.

Thanks much.

Krys

11/1/169:11 AM

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