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*Corresponding author: Prof. Lakshmamma V.T Principal,
Alcohol consumption has been identified as a risk factor for many health problems affecting socio-economic status of individual, family and society worldwide. Alcoholism is a chronic, progressive disease affecting millions of Indians. It can cause number of medical problems, violence in person, and even death. Drinking may be responsible for the disruption of family life in an alcoholic home, causing trauma and shaping each individual's development, yet family members will work hard to cover this reality. Alcoholism is a growing problem with society today and many people who suffer from it do not even realize it.
Mental health professionals have focused on the harmful effects of parental alcoholism over the past decades. Children in dysfunctional homes often times have unnoticeable symptoms. Purpose of this article was to understand Parental substance abuse, which places these youngsters at higher risk for behavioral, physical, emotional, educational, and economic problems interrupting child's normal development.
Current literature on children of alcoholics is relatively scanty, indicating the limited amount of research and professional attention that has been extended to this group. The treatment of alcoholism has focused primarily upon the alcoholic, while the children of alcoholics have been almost ignored. Every child deserves a healthy, nurturing childhood and the opportunity to grow to become a caring, productive adult. The need of the hour is to develop intervention programmes for children of alcoholics, focusing the behavioural and social problems.
Parental alcohol, Children of alcoholics, impact on children
