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Children of alcoholic parents carry a stigma.
Especially when the parents made scenes at restaurants, school festivals and other public settings.
Same (or worse) with the offspring of drug addicts.
Even those mothers and fathers who quit the habit and did rehab right. When you reject a cup of wine at someone´s birthday. When you go camping with the kids and their friend´s dad offers you a beer… and you know you should not take it. That stigma associated with not controlling what others can…
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Broken families and addiction are a very common couple.
Only those of us who have been through it, really know the burden of growing up in one of them.
If we are lucky, they may accept to go to rehab… Stay sober for a while, or for good. But the stigma of having abnormal and junkie parents will always be there…
