Learning how to navigate Mother’s Day or Father’s Day can be challenging for adult children of mothers and fathers who are alcoholics. Between painful past experiences and difficult relationships, it can be difficult to know how to approach these holidays in a healthy way. However, making self-care a priority and using healthy coping strategies can...Read More

Adult children of alcoholics need to feel in control. They try to control other people and situations out of fear and difficulty trusting others.

Anne DeSantis offers reflections for those who are adult children of alcoholics. The perspective she offers in the article is the Catholic perspective of healing. Being a child of alcoholic is never an easy thing to deal with. Anne discusses the realities of healing and offers advice to find God's peace throughout life after dealing with the trauma of family addictions.

'My mother's drinking was the backdrop to my childhood,' the agony aunt, now in her Sixties, reveals here.

Learning how to navigate Mother’s Day or Father’s Day can be challenging for adult children of mothers and fathers who are alcoholics. Between painful past experiences and difficult relationships, it can be difficult to know how to approach these holidays in a healthy way. However, making self-care a priority and using healthy coping strategies can...Read More

Meet therapist Tina Gilbertson, who shares tips and insights for parents who are estranged from their adult children.

Adult children of alcoholics tend to share some of these common characteristics, including difficulty having fun and getting into dysfunctional relationships. Learn more about ACoAs.

Meet therapist Tina Gilbertson, who shares tips and insights for parents who are estranged from their adult children.

As an adult child of an alcoholic, I’m totally aware that my brain is programmed differently than that of other people who didn’t grow up in that kind of environment with chaos caused an alcoholic parent. I realized this after watching a movie. Seriously. (Shut up.) Love Actually is a British romantic comedy released in the early...Read More

Coping with an alcoholic is an incredibly stressful and hard thing - especially when they're a loved one, like a spouse or parent. Find 6 ways to cope here!

Growing up with a parent who has alcohol or substance use disorder can lead to negative effects on your mental health and more. However, there's hope.

The father told Reddit users that his son decided to cut contact with his grandparents after learning how they had treated him.

As part of Alcoholism Awareness Month, Addiction Campuses is promoting education and raising awareness about the 4 stages of functional alcoholism.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Freedom is something that we hold dear. Inner freedom and peace of mind are

Give me predictability. Stability. A beautiful, detailed plan. And I’ll be a content (adult child of an alcoholic) woman. Yesterday, I spent the day with sister and her boyfriend on the campus of my alma mater, Michigan State University, for a football game. I had planned to be home by a certain time to get...Read More

What should you do if your alcoholic family member, husband, wife, son or daughter didn’t come home last night? Every situation will be different. I will write this post from the perspective that you are confident that they are OK because they have done this type of thing before. My thoughts are always in favor

Having friends who are alcoholics, as well as a rather slippery relationship with the bottle myself, I have a lot to say on this topic.

I learned that there comes a time when being kind to another is being unkind to myself. When the hurt becomes overwhelming, we must leave.

If you just googled “alcoholic parent” or something like that, hi. You, millions of other people and I have a lot in common. Odds are: You spent your whole life trying to stop Mom or Dad from drinking. You cleaned up the messes. You thought you caused them to drink. You were confused and scared....Read More

A New York restaurant has banned at least one adult dining with children from drinking more than one alcoholic beverage in a bid to reduce collisions caused by drink driving.

Alcoholism has a lasting impact on children. ***** Most of the adult children of alcoholics who I know underes

I realized that I don’t like cooking because I am an adult child of an alcoholic. About 20 years ago, people began talking about their delicious, made-from-scratch cake and the joy they received from the cooking experience. Then social media came along, and people REALLY began gushing about their latest culinary creations. I tried it...Read More

If you’re an adult child of an alcoholic (ACoA) and a parent, too, do you have that nagging fear in the back of your mind: “Am I going to pass on the legacy of alcoholism to my own children?” It’s a weighty concern, and one that many ACoAs grapple with because we know addiction repeats...Read More

After you admit that someone else’s substance use disorder negatively affected you, good things happen, my friend. At 26 years old, I had spent my entire life believing that if my mother stopped drinking, life would be perfect. I believed that her drinking caused all pain and suffering for Mom, Dad, my sister and me....Read More

Experiencing a sense of normalcy and stability is crucial for a child’s healthy development. Unfortunately, however, this is not the reality that many children of alcoholics experience in their early years. Alcoholism wreaks havoc in the home, resulting in high amounts of chaos, stress, and instability that affect many aspects of the development and characteristics...Read More

If you’re an adult child of an alcoholic (ACoA) and a parent, too, do you have that nagging fear in the back of your mind: “Am I going to pass on the legacy of alcoholism to my own children?” It’s a weighty concern, and one that many ACoAs grapple with because we know addiction repeats...Read More

Talking to an adult child who has an addiction to drugs or alcohol can be difficult. Call [Organic] to get help.

Are you a member of a family afflicted by addiction? For my entire life, that's been my story. My loved one's addictions have had a major impact on my life.

Alcoholism has a lasting impact on children. ***** Most of the adult children of alcoholics who I know underes

Some adult children of alcoholics become workaholics. Learn the connection between overworking and being an ACA or growing up in a dysfunctional family.

Growing up with parents who are alcoholics can have long-standing effects on a person's self-esteem in adulthood. Here are 16 signs you're an adult child of an alcoholic and how to seek out help.

For many of us, our entire childhood was swathed in dysfunction. Being the child of an addict is complicated, and we can't always verbalize how so. Even if we've had enough therapy to buy our psychiatrist a boat, we still may not even know we are dysfunctional.

It is not a rare phenomenon for an unloved child to battle with emotional and behavioral problems, even when they are an adult.

Learn more about Alexis Shaw, the Clinical Supervisor for the Partial Care Program at Pinelands Recovery Center of Medford.

An estimated 189,000 - 208,000 children in England live with an alcohol-dependent adult, of which 14,000 live with two alcohol dependent adults.

Adult children of alcoholics need to feel in control. They try to control other people and situations out of fear and difficulty trusting others.