When people think of dysfunctional families they tend to think of fatherless homes, impoverished households, and child abuse. Very rarely does this train of thought lead to one of the most predominant sources of many of these symptoms: alcoholism. I suffered through those symptoms (as well as others) through the duration of my childhood years. The stem of those problems was, in fact, alcoholism. Alcoholism is unquestionably debilitating to families, and very little is being done to target this core problem.

I understand that there are many other pressing problems affecting families today. I also understand that its difficult to target each and every one of these problems. However, if we take a step back to the source of some of these problems, we will see that a good amount of the time the source stems from alcoholism.

Alcohol is not the problem, alcoholism is. Drinking alcohol in a social setting is perfectly acceptable. I myself am a social drinker. Contrary to the odds, I am capable of exercising moderation. Although I have this ability, I have seen the blatant lack of

Children of alcoholics are more at risk for alcoholism and other drug use than children of non-alcoholics. They are two to four times more likely to develop alcoholism than others. This should be a red flag that we should target children young if we wish to prevent alcoholism. There is strong recent scientific evidence that alcoholism tends to ruin families. Alcoholics are more likely then nonalcoholic to have an alcoholic father, mother, or sibling. Statistics are also show disturbing evidence that alcoholism is strongly linked to child abuse within families. The rates of parental alcoholism among families with reported child abuse range from zero percent to ninety- two percent. If it’s not child abuse it is abandonment. If the problem is not direct abandonment it’s fatality, the ultimate abandonment. This is true for the simple fact that ninety-five percent of untreated alcoholics die of alcoholism, thus rendering families incomplete and unable to function at their full capacity.

Something needs to be done. If we don’t set up an improvement or some sort of plan of prevention, the problem of alcoholism and alcoholism within families will continue to escalate. The arguments against my position are that we need to first focus on bigger problems such as poverty, single parent homes, teen pregnancy, delinquent children, and even child abuse. The thing we need to acknowledge first is what is the actual core of most of these problems. And the truth is that more times than not alcoholism within the family unit is the biggest core problem. So instead of of targetin

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