NIMH · History of Childhood Maltreatment Linked to Higher Rates of Unemployment, Poverty

NIMH · History of Childhood Maltreatment Linked to Higher Rates of Unemployment, Poverty

Well, as an unemployed, impoverished adult who was mistreated as a child, my life would tend to be another datum to support this.

Overall, adults who had experienced any type of maltreatment in childhood were twice as likely as non-victims to be unemployed.

Wonder if they took a look at gender?

And another horrifying fact of my existence - Maltreatment was also linked to lower rates of health care coverage and greater use of social services such as Medicaid, especially among adults who had experienced childhood sexual abuse.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/2009/childhood-maltreatment-undermines-physical-health-in-adulthood.shtml

So I am unemployed and have little health care coverage; but I need to see a lot of doctors for both physical and mental illness and be on a lot of medication because I was sexually abused as a child. Terrific.