At the young and crucial age of 16, a girl loses her father. All of her life she was daddy’s little girl, constantly wanting to be just like him. He was the most fascinating person she knew and she couldn’t get enough of his attention. Though they only spent their days together since her parents were divorced, when she went home with her mother she wondered what her dad was doing and if he missed her. She loved her father and his death at her young age affected her greatly, significantly the reason for his death. This man was known as two things, a great father and an alcoholic. You can almost refer to him as a type of superman, a great father by day and alcoholic by night. When finding out her father had cirrhosis of the liver, a consequence of chronic liver disease (wikipedia 1), and that he would soon die, she found herself in a depression, drinking her problems away as her father would normally do. She ended up being just like her dad as she always wanted, even with a daughter of her own and a son.
Drinking since the age of 16 caused her to suffer from alcoholism, a disease which results in a persistent use of alcohol despite negative consequences (wikipedia paragraph 1), which enabled her to lead the life of her fathers only without being able to hide it from her children. In her case she has had many instances where her children were made embarrassed by their drunken mother, either falling asleep, falling down or saying something outrageous. For them, living with an alcoholic mother disabled them from having a normal lifestyle. Alcoholism statistics indicate 6.6 million children under 18 live in households with at least one alcoholic parent (Alcoholism).
Growing up as a kid you are constantly being informed about drugs and alcohol from the effects to the peer pressures and how to say no. D.A.R.E programs, specialized segments in many courses and general information from teachers and parents are the many different attempts to try and...