By Anne Babb | General Secretary
Ca. 122,000 children in Denmark children grow up in a family with an alcohol problem and in Europe around 9 million children are living with one parent addicted to alcohol.
Many of them get a childhood full of lies and secrets, because the children are often the only witnesses to the parents' abuse. They do not say anything. And we do not ask others.
Every third of these children themselves get an alcohol abuse as an adult. Unless they get help to handle their harsh reality and access to other options than those they see at home.
Many well-functioning children from families with alcohol problems say that their rescue became an adult outside the family who saw them and showed them another way. You can become the adult in a child's life. Here on the page we have gathered different ideas and help to support the child .
Break the taboo
Start breaking the taboo by talking about the negative effects of alcohol. Tell children and young people that there are many ways to treat alcohol. Talk about harm and insecurity caused to children by drunken aduts and child's right to be looked after by an adult who is not drunk. Discuss openly, what it means to be too drunk and what child should and should not accept.
It may not be that the child you know is ready to talk about family problems. But then you can talk about alcohol in general, and you can show your child different ways of being a family.
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