When you live with parental addiction, a little kindness, can go a long way. When you are sad, or lonely or feeling unwanted, the smallest gesture from someone who sees you can change the course of your day, it can strengthen you for the week, it can give you something to hang onto that feels good instead of bad.
Kids trapped in alcoholic homes carry burdens through their days that other kids don't. Forget that nearly 50 percent will grow up to marry alcoholics themselves, children of addicted parents, as the CDC ACE study reports, continue to suffer the long-term mental health consequences of growing up in the midst of of alcoholism or drug addiction. Right now, next door, across the hall or down the block they are at risk for having another really bad day. Today. One that they think they have to figure out and bear all alone.
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