How can having an alcoholic parent affect children and what interventions are available to reduce the impact?
If the mother drank while pregnant, they could even be a victim of fetal alcohol syndrome, which carries through childhood and into adulthood. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry states that one in five adults in the U.S. grew up with an alcoholic family member at home. From the literature on alcohol’s direct harms to drinkers, …