2010-07-26
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Question by ……….: how likely is it that a teen will be an alcoholic he/she has had relatives who were alcoholics?
yeah, it runs on both sides of the family. I have drank before and once i start i don’t want to stop. I have never been drunk before though. I get these insnae urges to drink, so i am scared to drink.
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Answer by wнσα;; [[ѕт☮яу oƒ α giяℓ ❤]]
I think it’s like around half times more likely if its a parent or grandparent.
But it depends on more than that.
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I think it’s something like 63% more likely? I don’t know, I had DARE a long time ago.
If it’s true, than yippee for me. Multiple alcoholics on both sides of the family.
it all depends on the person and circumstances.
a kid who sees their family being not the best (say a person has divorced parents), and the mom always drinks. Constantly. And the kid sees that the family is crappy because of it, and the mom has no luck finding a job or maybe has a lack of money to buy good foods. Maybe the kid would realize that the alcohol is making things worse, first, wasting money, and second, being drunk all the time.
but maybe another kid would see that their mom (of course it could be a dad too) drinking, but having a pretty good life, would think it’s okay because they do it, and well, nothing bad is going on and it seems to make things more relaxed,
I have a friend, her parents are divorced, and her mom smokes constantly. she has a job, but the mother is wasting a lot of money on cigs and not needs of her kids. she doesn’t buy them clothes like an average parent would, and they eat mostly fast foods or sometimes easy to make stuff at home. my friend, she sees this as a downside. she sees her mother is neglecting her (not a bad parent, but isn’t like by her side, cheering her on in life). she understands its because she is addicted to cigarettes. this is because of the cigs because the mother spends so much money on those, and not on the kids to buy fruits every day. she is addicted to them and they don’t make her nice. she is a bit fussy, and complains a lot and jittery when she wants a cig, but maybe can’t at the time. my friend, understands that she will never do that. she really wants her mom to quit, but she keeps on saying, yeah, i want to too.
on the other hand, when my mom and i went to visit my mom’s friend, while going on a vacation, we saw that she smokes too. she has a good job though. hides it away from her younger son (16) though, but her older son knows she smokes. she has a pretty good job, decent home, (they live in FL) and she is fine (except that she complained SO much, hah, but that’s her character, she’s always been like that)
and anyways, her older son just started smoking too. and my mom(being a doctor) says that she should encourage him to stop. and the friend says, it’s his life, he can decide for himself.
So i guess it depends on how the child’s life is.
maybe 50 50 chance.
The best studies I’ve read say that the children of alcoholics have 4 times more chances to become alcoholics themselves if compared with the general population. However, statistics only demonstrate a tendency and do not speak about other factors of alcoholism. It’s not the absolute truth. Not to say that we’re a proof of anything but both my parents and their parents are alcoholics and drug-addicts and so far none of my siblings have developed substance dependency.