... alcohol. There are various reasons as to why they became an alcoholic, but the most common is because of a downfall or unpleasant event that led them to depression. The alcoholic parents affect everyone around them, especially family. Unfortunately, the children are the ones who seem to be hurt the most. Children of alcoholics face intimacy problems because they do not know what a healthy relationship is like. "They have no frame of reference for a healthy intimate relationship, because they have never seen one" (Woititz, 1983 63). Children of alcoholics normally come from "broken" families because these families tend to have a lot of abuse, lying, cheating, denial, secrets, and little emotional stability. The alcoholic parent changes from loving and warm, and everything a child would want a father to be, to getting involved in big fights with the other parent, coming home late, breaking promises, and maybe even ...

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