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Alcoholism Trauma in childhood. While watching a television series, this showed some high school young people at a clandestine party where sex, alcohol and drugs were the main dish that should be used to "enter the environment." I quickly looked at my little 10 -year -old daughter who came to ask me something and I thought: "Soon she will go to high school, and I will not be there to protect her." I am sure my expression of concern was obvious since she asked me: "Is it all right, mom?" Obviously, I replied yes but many temptations and added to the conditions in which I grew up and in which I lived; I was an easy alcoholic dam. My name is Maria, I am 30 years old, and I was born in Ecuador. My mother abandoned me 2 months when I was born and my father lived and worked in United States of America, by the time he knew about my mother's abandonment, she had already disappeared without a trace. My father's situation was a bit delicate abroad and I could not come back as soon as he wanted to be with me, so he had to accept that I stayed with friends who were becoming an adoptive family for me. In the course of that time, I was sexually abused as many times as you cannot imagine for how many people you cannot count; I was physically and verbally mistreated and forced to shut up with absurd threats. In addition, I saw my mother drunk from time to time greeting me and hitting me meaninglessly. Thinking about the scene I had seen in the movie, I tried to think about which of the past traumas could be the triggers of alcoholism in my adolescence, and I found no sense to have fallen there, that is; I was a Christian girl supported by my ecclesiastical leaders to find peace and forgiveness I needed in my life and move forward, I was an excellent student and even had the love and support of my father. Exact !!!, that was just what happened, my father died when I was about to turn 12. We already had plans for me to have a new life away from that hell in which I lived. Without a doubt that was what kept me strong, but without my father I started having "friends" in high school that offered me "comfort" and they introduced me to alcohol and when they moved me away from them again, I did not

do it. ' I have to say it and alcohol became my best friend. Of course, in my self-analysis I had already found causes such as psychological traumas of childhood, attachment theory and bad example of my alcoholic mother, but was it right? Gomis-Pomares et al. (2021) In their article they mention that "Early negative life experiences seem to contribute to the deterioration of different milestones of development in children and adolescents, such as outstanding emotional, social and cognitive processes." To guarantee a safe and enriching childhood would prevent these negative results from appearing and would also be economically beneficial and alleviate pressures on all these systems (Gomis-Pomares et al., 2021). Notably my negative childhood experiences are defined as Intergenerational Transmission or Continuity that in a nut Children seem to assume that the rules and the behavior learned are proper, so when we grow, we tend to repeat this behavior pattern to our next generation. Corongiu et al. (2022) affirm that " The genetic background and age in the first exhibition have been identified as critical variables that contribute to individual vulnerability to drug addiction and alcohol." In a study based on the epidemiological survey of national longitudinal alcohol of 1992, samples were taken in adults 18 years or more that were randomly selected. The Respondents were classified with alcohol consumption disorders and with the association criteria of abuse and dependence experience at any time in their lives. Then it is reasonable to think that this idea of having "alcoholism as a shelter" was already there but the trigger was my father's death. Analyzing all this I think of the emotional vulnerability of our children, since although my daughter many children have not had these strong experiences that I or we have suffered, however the current microsystem of children can be found contaminated without that we realize how disastrous this can be for them. Have you noticed whether you are normal in your home or if any member of your family drinks alcohol? Has he set if his son presence episodes where someone drugs or mistreats his children?

I understand that you always want good for your family and if you really expect your children to be better than me, than you or any other person and that they do not fall into alcoholism, think of this article and decide to change your life, seek help and refuge in an Addiction Recovery Group available in your town or around the world, pray to God and look for your help for you to improve and not be a bad example to your children; try to become that positive refuge that your child of you needs and helps others sharing your testimony of overcoming, so as I do with you in this article. I was young, not to mention the justification I admit that I was alcoholic, I would overcome it, I am a mother, wife, friend and I want our children to never walk along that dark path from which few can leave, you can make the decision to change, do it now, do it. For your children, do it for you.

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