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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, non-drinking child of alcoholics here.  My spouse also didn't drink for many years due to a particular health problem so our daughter was raised most of her youth in a non-drinking household.  We told her that she might be predisposed to addiction so she had to watch her consumption carefully.  Despite growing up in a non-drinking household, she went off to college and jumped feet first into raging alcoholism.  Because she knew that this was the family disease, I think once she realized she had a problem she dealt with it and started going to a 12-step program.  Kid's been in recovery for a while and is doing well.

All this is to say that you [i]not[/i] drinking in front of your children will [i]not[/i] prevent them from becoming alcoholics.  Modelling responsible drinking in front of your children will also [i]not[/i] prevent them from becoming alcoholics.  Alcoholism runs far deeper than that.  So if you do have family with addictions (and I'm wondering about your parents from the way you describe them), you do need to tell your children they may be predisposed to addiction and give them the tools to deal with it if they find themselves falling into addiction.  But I doubt your drinking or not drinking will make them addicts.

And you might tell your mother that she needs to get to Al-Anon because she is acting like a first class co-dependent!   Good luck, OP![/quote]
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Alcoholism is about addiction. She needs to get these feelings out at Al-Anon, not your weekly chats about what the kids are doing at school......[/quote]

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