Effects of Childhood Trauma Reverberate Through Generations of Milwaukeeans
“‘The vast majority of adults raised in high-crime, low-income neighborhoods of Milwaukee have been exposed to significant adversity,’ he continues. The fallout from this kind of exposure can be extreme. Studies have found that people with more ACEs have issues finding and keeping jobs and have much higher rates of addiction.
Mersky notes that the prevalence of ACE exposure in Milwaukee is probably not unusual. ‘There is no reason to believe that Milwaukee is in some way unique from many other urban centers,’ he explains.”