Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Quotes

Severely deprived, neglectful or abusive environments must have negative effects on a great many aspects of development, including intelligence.

Childhood trauma is really what puts the rocket fuel behind addiction.

We have a pandemic of childhood trauma.

Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment that's 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math.

I came from a tough childhood. There was a lot of stuff that I'd actually forgotten or that I'd blocked or hidden away until I started addressing it.

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is.

Unhappy and unsettled childhood helps in writing.

I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.