Opinion | Childhood trauma is a public health threat. Our kids deserve better.

Children growing up with toxic stress from abuse or neglect are more likely to have lifelong health problems. Girls and boys forced into sex trafficking, migrant children being separated from their parents, students surviving a school shooting, kids growing up in homes with substance abuse or mental illness are all at risk. But Nadine Burke Harris, California's surgeon general, says there is hope. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube:

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