In ten pages the effects of alcohol abuse by parents on their children are examined. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography.
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from the adverse impact. Infants, toddlers, older children, adolescents and adults all deal with its presence in different ways, none of which prove beneficial to the individuals overall development.
Alcoholic parents not only detrimentally impact the home life while their children are growing up, but they also pave the path for them to follow in their addictive footsteps.
II. BIRTH Long before he is even out of the womb, the baby of an alcohol abuser has already had to fight
for his life. During the developmental months, a fetus consumes all that the mother consumes -- including every drop of alcohol. Once born, the infant begins a life
of alcohol-related problems, such as learning disorders, social difficulties, myriad health problems and the likelihood of hereditary alcoholism. As the infant grows into the toddler stage, an intoxicated parent
is not going to be the proper role model. Birth until three years of age are considered the most impressionable in a child; watching his parents in a constant
state of drunkenness will bring him to the conclusion that this is the normal way of life. He will not know to question whether that is the case or
not, because that will be all he has ever been exposed to. As he grows to realize it is his family displaying the dysfunctional behavior and not that of
his friends, he will then begin to feel different from his peers. "Children from families where alcoholism and/or drug abuse are present are particularly at risk for the development
of substance-abuse problems. Children of alcoholics are four to five times more likely to develop alcohol dependence than are other children" (Werner et al, 1999, p. 1099).