When you see a drunken parent with a small child, you can’t help but to feel sympathy for the child. What will become of the child? The topic of ‘Alcoholism and the Effects It Has On Children,’ had a great appeal to me because of the personal experiences that I have been through. Not only being a child of an alcoholic, but also allowing alcoholism to play a leading role in my life as well. Alcoholism has had a great effect on my sisters and I growing up, and alcoholism may also have an effect on my children and grandchildren.

Growing up, my most common memory of my father, was the sight of him struggling to keep his balance because he was too drunk to stand up. Both of my parents drank a lot. My father was the heavier drinker between the both of them. My mother would join my father in his drinking, but she would not get as drunk as he did or drink all weekend long. The drinking would usually start early Friday afternoon, after my father was off for the weekend, and lasted until he had to work again on Monday morning. Most of my weekends were spent, trying to stay out of my father’s way. My sisters and I would try to do everything in our will to do all of the th

Depression is a main variable in the underachievement of these children. The stress that is put on them in the household, and the mentality that they can not do anything right. Not only the environment of which they were born into has a weak parental hand, which would push them to succeed, they also cannot excel as well as other children that have a healthy family life.

Not only does alcoholism bring out early childhood bouts of depression, but it also affects the cognitive skills and IQs of their children. A study done by Alcohol Clinical Experimental Research, indicated that children of ‘anti-social alcoholics; displayed the worse IQ’s and academic achievements in elementary school compared with children from families in which there were no alcoholics.

“Findings indicate that children from and-social families are most susceptible to relative intellectual, cognitive and academics deficits.” The study concluded. “Familial risks characteristics (i.e., paternal alcoholism and antisocially) may serve as effective indicators of family risk for poor intellectual outcome among offspring as early as the elementary years.”

ings that my parents wanted us to do, so that we would stay out of trouble. Most of our Saturdays were invested at my grandparent’s home. We would get there Saturday afternoon and leave

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