Children of alcoholics. Part 4 – emotional life continued

January 24, 2008

In the first three articles on children of alcoholics we started showing how alcohol abuse by parents affect children’s life both physically and emotionally. There are important consequences of drinking most of the time ignored by people simply because of lack of information and proper education since early ages.

You can read these articles here:

  1. Insidious damages inflicted on drinker’s family. Children of alcoholics. (part 1)
  2. Insidious damages inflicted on drinker’s family. Children of alcoholics. (part 2)
  3. Children of alcoholics. Part 3 – emotional life.

Today we continue with drinking consequences on children’s emotional life. The first article on emotional life showed how very young children and infants are suffering from family violence in general and how alcohol is most of the time the primary cause for such violence. A simple scene of both parents arguing is perceived by the child with much higher intensity than we can imagine and the memory of that feeling does not disappear while he grows, affecting his emotional stability.

In what follows, I will lay down an example (A clinical case) which [...Read the rest of this article at the new location of this blog. Click here...]