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Case Reports
. 2022 Dec:251:190-195.e4.
doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2022.07.050. Epub 2022 Aug 6.

Parent-Child Nativity, Race, Ethnicity, and Adverse Childhood Experiences Among U.S. Children

Kasra Zarei  1 , Lisa Kahle  2 , Dennis W Buckman  2 , Kelvin Choi  3 , Faustine Williams  3
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Parent-Child Nativity, Race, Ethnicity, and Adverse Childhood Experiences Among U.S. Children

Kasra Zarei et al. J Pediatr. 2022 Dec.

Abstract

We examined the relationship between parent-child nativity, race/ethnicity, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among US children. We found that a high proportion of Black/Hispanic children experienced ACEs, with variation by generation for Hispanic but not Black children, and a lower but increasing proportion of White children experienced ACEs by generation.

Keywords: ACEs; adverse childhood experiences; disparities; ethnicity; nativity; race.

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Conflict of Interest Statement: None of the authors have any conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Variations in estimated prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) by household generation, race, and ethnicity. Sample-weighted predicted marginal proportions (model-adjusted risks) of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in racial/ethnic groups, stratified by household generation; predicted marginal proportions control for age, sex, family income to poverty ratio, and parental education (see models referred to in Table 4).
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