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Learning To Take It

Child sexual abuse has been considered as one of the most serious public health problems facing society and, above all, children and young people themselves

The study, conducted by researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles and published  in Pediatrics, finds that traumatic events in childhood increase the risk of mental health and behavioral problems not just for that person but also for their children.<br><br>“Early-life experiences -- stressful or traumatic ones in particular -- have intergenerational consequences for child behavior and mental health," the lead author, Adam Schickedanz, clinical instructor in pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA,

The ACE study indicates childhood experiences are the most basic and long-lasting cause of health risk behaviors, mental illness, social malfunction, disability, biomedical disease, death, healthcare and prison cost.&nbsp;

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