Addiction is not just a disease of one single person–the addict. No. It is a disease that affects society, specifically its primary unit, the family. And when parents are addicted to drugs, alcohol or behaviors such as gambling, the most impacted are the kids.
If you are a parent and are struggling with substance or behavioral addiction, you are affecting your children in so many more ways than you can imagine. This is why it’s important that you get intervention and treatment to protect your own kids from the negative consequences of your addiction.
Here are 5 ways your drug addiction is not just affecting your kids–it is harming them.
1. Your kids can be exposed to abuse. Whether it is through neglect, violence, sexual or emotional abuse, children from addicted parents are more likely to suffer from abuse. This may be from their parents or from people who associate with their parents.
2. Your kids may suffer from mental illness. If not now, then maybe later on in life, your kid will experience trauma and mental health issues. Kids from addicted parents are more likely to have anxiety, depression, and other mental disorders.
3. Your kids may develop behavioral problems. Because their parents were not always present to serve as their guide and because of their dysfunctional household and upbringing, kids from addicted parents do not learn healthy coping tools, values, and behaviors. They have trouble thinking, acting, and expressing appropriately.
4. They become predisposed to developing addiction. Whether as teens or later on as adults, your children may develop addictions of their own. This is because your parents addictive personality is hereditary. This means it can be passed throughout generations.
5. They are more likely to flunk school. Because of lack of proper guidance and support from parents and other adults in their lives, your children may struggle with school and other responsibilities. This then demotivates them from attending school and so turn to other activities such as joining gangs or selling drugs themselves.
Addiction really does have devastating and tragic effects on families, especially the most vulnerable members: the children.
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