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Parental Abuse On Child Abuse

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Parental Addiction
“No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions”(Kennedy). People are all being affected by drug and alcohol abuse every day. Parents who take drugs are not only harming themselves horribly, but harming their children even more. This maltreatment of children can lead to behavioral problems, mental disorders, poor performance in school, and even delinquency. Parents who have addictions can not only handicap themselves but also their children, mentally, emotionally, and in some cases physically.
Mothers and fathers who have a dependance on drugs and other substances have an increased ability to harm their children without meaning to. In Eau Claire county in Wisconsin more children than ever are being taken away from parents by child protection agencies because of the parent’s reliance on meth. In mid december 2016 two brothers were taken into child protection because their dad fell asleep at the wheel after consuming meth in the parent pick up line waiting for his sons to get out of school. One other time two boys were relocated after their mother was found taking meth and the boys tested positive for meth too. In Eau claire county sixty-seven percent of child protection incidents involved alcohol or other substances in 2010. Whereas in Eau Claire in 2016 there were eighty-two percent of cases involving alcohol or other drugs, but ninety-four percent of those were meth related (“Meth’s empty desks”). Far too many cases involving addictions in the United States as a whole that we need to fix.
Just as just being around a parent who has an addiction can cause physical harm to a child, it can cause emotional and mental harm too. From the article “Children of Alcoholics” they say when children are exposed to drugs they may suffer from many problems such as behavioral problems, lack of social skills, and mental disorders. They may also suffer from emotional problems because the adolescents are not able to get enough affection from their guardians. Addiction to drugs or alcohol can alter perception of the parents so children found usually have been put in harm's way, neglected, or abused. In fact studies have been shown that many people

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