Maternal and paternal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and offspring health and wellbeing: A scoping review
- Grafft, N., Lo, B., Easton, S. D., Pineros-Leano, M., & Davison, K. K. (2024). Maternal and paternal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and offspring health and wellbeing: A scoping review. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 28, 52-66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-023-03825-y
- This scoping review and content analysis summarized 49 articles on the relationship between parents’ adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their children’s physical and mental health outcomes. For each article, participant characteristics, parental ACEs (i.e., mothers’, fathers’, or both), methodology, and child outcomes (e.g., internalizing behaviors, externalizing behaviors) were reviewed and summarized. Overall, parental ACEs were linked to a variety of negative child outcomes, including internalizing (e.g., anxiety, depression) and externalizing (e.g., aggression) behaviors. Importantly, few studies have focused on fathers’ ACEs, highlighting a gap in the ACEs literature.
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