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Sexual abuse seldom happens in isolation. A study of 17,421 adults at Kaiser Permanente’s Department of Preventative Medicine in San Diego found that of the adults who reported being sexually abused as children, many of them reported other traumatic experiences that were happening concurrently—things like neglect, losing a parent as a result of divorce or imprisonment, living with a dysfunctional parent who was a substance abuser.

This is particularly interesting when coupled with the knowledge that child molesters often seek out needy children.

Those in the study who had at least four adverse factors going on were twice as likely to be smokers, 12 times more likely to have committed suicide, seven times more likely to be alcoholics and 10 times more likely to use street drugs. Dr. Vincent Felitti, one of the authors of The Adverse Childhood Experience Study wrote:

“The study makes it clear that time does not heal some of the adverse experience we found so common in the childhoods of a large population of middle-aged, middle class Americans. One does not “just get over some things, not even 50 years later.”¹⁵