How can a child be used as a wake-up call for the addicted parent
A journalist asks whether children can sometimes provide the wake-up call an addicted parent needs?
Sure, a child can serve as a wake-up call to an addicted parent--particularly if there's a credible threat of the child being taken away. Since we never know how great the pain a particular addict must endure, this promise (the active addiction must stop, or...) should always be made.
By the way, clue # 10 in the chapter entitled "Poor Judgment" in my book "How to Spot Hidden Alcoholics" is out-of-control children. They are an excellent clue to alcoholism in a parent you may not even know.
Whitney Houston's mother threatened to take Whitney's child from her in the intervention that seems to have put Whitney on ...
