24-04-2018 16:38 via huffingtonpost.co.uk

Children Are Alcoholism's Most Innocent Victims - And Deserve More Help

Alcoholism casts a long shadow across our society, but its most innocent victims are the 200,000 children who pay the price for their parents’ drinking.The figures are startling. A child whose parent has an alcohol problem is twice as likely to struggle at school and five times more likely to develop eating disorders than other children.  They’re also three times more likely to consider suicide, and four times more likely to become alcoholics themselves, later in life.People lik
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