Researchers find that roughly three of every five Canadian adults ages 45 and older were exposed to childhood abuse, neglect, intimate partner violence or other household adversity.
Researchers with McMaster’s Offord Centre for Children at Child Studies will lead the $3.4 million study over the next five years.
Gonzalez, an assistant professor in McMaster’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, said the traumatic experience may have placed the boys at higher risk for anxiety and specific phobias such as fear of the dark and fear of enclosed spaces.