... the disease; worrying about the health of their parents and how to "survive their parents troubled relationship" (Ackerman 52). Children of alcohol dependent parents are often deprived of having enjoyable experiences as a family. Because the children are conditioned to constantly handle conflict and crisis, they are "unable to relax their defenses and have fun" (Ackerman 9). This is a horrible ... way to experience childhood and undoubtedly has an emotional effect on the individual as a child that will be carried into adulthood. Numerous studies and research has attested to the fact tha...

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... to insure the continuation of future generations. The theory of Intergenerational Transmission which borrows ideas from Social Learning Theory, involves the relationship between parental violence and subsequent child violence during adulthood. Specifically, it is believed that abused children are more likely to become abusers, victims, or violent offenders (Kashani & Allan, 1998). For example, a study conducted by Rynerson and Fishel (1993) surveyed ... are two distinct variables that have been correlated to be characteristic of the male perpetrator. These variables include the male's c...

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... to insure the continuation of future generations. The theory of Intergenerational Transmission, which borrows ideas from Social Learning Theory, involves the relationship between parental violence and subsequent child violence during adulthood. Specifically, it is believed that abused children are more likely to become abusers, victims, or violent offenders (Kashani & Allan, 1998). For example, a study conducted by Rynerson and Fishel (1993) surveyed ... are two distinct variables that have been correlated to be characteristic of the male perpetrator. These variables include the male's ...

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... safe to infer that the documented effects of substance abuse in general may be applied to the abuse of alcohol (Hayden, 2004). Locke and Newcomb (2004) state that, "Adverse childhood experiences influence later drug use. Individuals maltreated as children often report subsequent drug use. There are also relationships between parents' substance use and later abuse of substances by their children Some ... ), they fail to learn this trust because alcoholic parents are not capable of giving the required levels of care. Indeed, the bad effects of alcoholic parents became apparent long before ...

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... of life (Yorburg, 2002). This has been the reason why parents tend to punish their children in ways on how they would want their children to be, relying on their experiences, intuitive sense of right and wrong and from the cultural belief they were raised to believe to (Hamner & Turner, 2001). The endorsement of these influences creates the right upon parents ... (Eisenberg & Fabes, 1998), doesn't interact well with other people, often angry, could not get along with others, depress child (Frias-Armenta, 2002), and exposed to violence and criminal behavior in adulthood (Swinford et al.,...

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... assault were used to collect data from the subjects. The titles of each subscale: Childhood Sexual Abuse, Childhood Physical Abuse, and Adult Victimization, are self-explanatory as to which past experiences were inquired about within them. The results of the study showed an extremely high correlation between childhood abuse and adult victimization. Sexual abuse during childhood, but not physical abuse during ... article. I was surprised to learn that the experience of childhood abuse did not teach its victims to stay away from violent people, but conversely, made them susceptible to abu...

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... developing not only emotional problems but physical problems, as well. These problems range from the inability to establish rewarding long-term relationships to difficulty facing reality, traceable to early familial experiences. In many ways, childhood is abbreviated for children whose parents are alcoholics. They learn to parcel out feelings to avoid upsetting the alcoholic parent or to avoid being held responsible ... , engaged in a struggle to control an uncontrollable situation. As a result, the methods utilized by affected children to cope with their parent's alcoholism initiates a ...

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... developing not only emotional problems but physical problems, as well. These problems range from the inability to establish rewarding long-term relationships to difficulty facing reality, traceable to early familial experiences. In many ways, childhood is abbreviated for children whose parents are alcoholics. They learn to parcel out feelings to avoid upsetting the alcoholic parent or to avoid being held responsible ... , engaged in a struggle to control an uncontrollable situation. As a result, the methods utilized by affected children to cope with their parent's alcoholism initiates a ...

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... used to maintain fear, intimidation and power. In all cultures, the perpetrators are most commonly the men of the family. Nearly one in three adult women experiences at least one physical assault by a partner during adulthood, according to the American Psychological Association in a 1996 report. In the nineteenth century, women were regarded as the property of their husbands. This meant a husband could ... ...

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