About 5% of California Children Have Lived With an Individual With Mental Illness
About 5% of California children have lived with an individual with a mental illness, a lower rate than any other state, according to a new report by Child Trends. The report also found that about 9% of California children had lived through three or more traumatic experiences that can cause chronic stress, compared with 11% nationally.
- "Half of the Nation's Children Have Suffered Trauma, Report Says" (Fernandes, "KPCC News," KPCC, 7/31).