• That children have to grow up in homes with parental alcohol problems is an invisible and silent crisis worldwide.* As their parents cannot provide shelter and often basic support, also society is failing to protect and promote the rights of these children.
• In the United States, more than 10% of children live with a parent with alcohol problems.
• In the EU, 9 million children grow up with parents who have alcohol problems.
• There are 2.6 million children of school age living with parental alcohol problems in the UK alone.
• In Australia 1 million children live in households with at least one adult being addicted.
• The number of children living in homes that are ravaged by alcohol problems sky-rockets considering the countries around the world that are currently not even measuring the issue
• Negative impacts on children due to parents’ alcohol use are of epidemic proportions and a real crisis. All available evidence shows that the problem is massive:*
• In the United States, mothers convicted of child abuse are 3 times more likely to be alcoholics and fathers are 10 times more likely to be alcoholics.
• More than 50% of all confirmed abuse reports and 75% of child deaths involve the use of alcohol or other drugs by a parent.
• USA: 13% of child abusers are under the influence of alcohol.
• Europe: 16% of all cases of child abuse and neglect are alcohol-related.
• Alcohol is a major factor in domestic violence. Children are more likely to develop aggressive tendencies where there is a lack of parental monitoring, or where parents provide aggressive role models.
• Alcohol fuels and exacerbates child maltreatment, and physical and sexual abuse
• Children were 52% more likely to have anxiety or depression when both parents regularly consumed alcohol.
• Children of Alcoholics…

• Don’t Trust
• Don’t Talk
• Don’t Feel (National Association of Children of Alcoholics)

For complete research go to Children of Alcohol-Facts-and-explanation (movendi.ngo)