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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband is the only one of his siblings who is adopted and it is truly incredible to see the difference in him and his siblings with regard to alcohol abuse and mental illness. I come from a family full of those issues as well so I suppose I am glad that he didn't think too much about it before we had children. [/quote]I come from a family of alcoholics so I just prepared my kid that this might be an issue for her some day.  And it was but fortunately she took the right steps to get sober.  My dh thinks his family doesn't have addiction issues but we learned that his aunt was an alcoholic and his mother didn't even know it.  And I know that his mother, before she died, had kind of a dependency on alcohol. She told me out of the blue that she knows that doctors recommend that women only have one drink a day but she was going to have two, she didn't care.  (I took the announcement of it and the counting of the drinks as a sign that someone can't just take or leave alcohol.)  And his dad never drank, supposedly because he was allergic to it in some way but I've always wondered whether he didn't quit because he was having difficulty.  Anyway, that all is to say that I'm not convinced that people sometimes even know how many genetically-connected problems their parents have.  A lot of these issues are things that families hide.[/quote]

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