They may spend a lot of energy trying to figure out a parent’s mood or guess what the parent wants. They may feel helpless and frustrated when the parent promises to stop drinking and they don’t keep their promises.Ĭhildren may be mistreated, or neglected, for instance coming home from school to find their parent passed out on the couch. Living with a parent who drinks excessively may make the children in the family feel embarrassed, angry, sad, or hurt. Children of alcoholics may feel high levels of tension and stress. They may feel responsible for the problems of the alcoholic and may think they created the problem. Many normal children of alcoholics have common symptoms such as low self-esteem, loneliness, guilt, feelings of helplessness, fear of abandonment, and chronic depression. She may give birth to a baby with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome which is one of the three top known causes of birth defects. If a woman drinks alcohol during her pregnancy, the concentration of alcohol in her unborn baby’s bloodstream is the same level as her own.
Alcoholism is responsible for more family problems than any other single cause. Nearly seventy-six million American adults have been exposed to alcoholism in their family, as well as one in every four families. Did you grow up in a family where you were the child of an alcoholic?
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