Children with disabilities encounter more violence in their lives, according to a January report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db431.pdf). Researchers conducted a study of stressful life events in children with disabilities ages five to 17 using data from the 2019 National Health Interview Survey. Children with disabilities had significantly higher exposure to each of the four stressful life events examined in the survey: mental illness, alcohol or drug abuse, neighborhood violence, and parental incarceration. They found that 21.6% of children with disabilities lived with someone with mental illness compared with 7.5% of children without disabilities. Children with disabilities were also more likely to live with someone with an alcohol or drug problem (17.6% versus 8.6%), twice as likely to have had a parent or guardian incarcerated, and three times more likely to witness or be victims of neighborhood violence.