Child drug addiction.Is it the parents fault?

I think fault and blame are two different things. Is it the parents fault, probably, are they to blame, maybe. My father is an alcoholic, his father was an alcoholic. He didn't learn how to parent, how to convey feeling and so on. I am an alcoholic, is it my fathers fault because his father didn't teach him what he needed to know? Addiction follows rules that the child growing up learns to live with. The odds of a person growing up in a family with addiction and becoming one are 60/40 against. I glad that we live in a time of information that maybe I can break this cycle for my kids.

intrepid


I 'm not to sure i agree with you, I seem to be in the same situation (father,grandfather) howerer i try to give what my father didn't give to me ( baseball, softball, one on one time , etc.) these were the things that i wanted and didn't get. so i did learn how to be a father from a father that didn't play an active roll.

W, that's exactly what I mean. We live in an age of information that allows a person to step outside of what a person learns.

Originally posted by intrepid
W, that's exactly what I mean. We live in an age of information that allows a person to step outside of what a person learns.

is that really stepping outside or just learning from experiance?

Well, if we learned from experience then we would just be continueing the cycle.

experience is both failures and non failures we just hope were smart and lucky enouch not to fail

Unfortunately few people learn in this manner or there wouldn't be a multitude of books out there on this.

but still half of those book are still written for idoits by idoits

OK Wget, I'll bite, what exactly is your point? I've shown you mine.

THis all got started with a 16 year old girl drugged out of her mind with a 1 year old child tried to raise a child and a drug habit at the same time. we have all had the same chances that she has had and she still wants to keep the baby and the drugs. I think we are agreeing on the same things just in different ways.

just think children shouldn't raise children

I have 2 girl coming up to that age, I couldn't agree more.

i have a little girl that is 7 sometime i'm scared to death
i know how i was as a boy thinking about locking her up in the basement until she is 39

i know how i was as a boy thinking about locking her up in the basement until she is 39.

39? I was thinking until after I'm dead, or Alzhiemers, whichever comes first.

hell i got one you got two good luck