SUBSTANCE ABUSING PARENTS

Adolescents with Substance Abusing Parents

Abstract

In this research paper, we try to focus on the Substance Abusing Parents and their impact on children. Initially, the paper gives the brief description about the Adolescents with Substance Abusing Parents and provides information regarding the drug appears to affect parenting skills for various reasons. This paper also focuses on the impact on Child development due to substance abusing parents. It also discusses barriers to intervention with drug addicts and neglectful parents. Finally, paper concludes with the remark that habitual of drugs and addictive substances create a negative image on the mind of the youth, because they see their parents using drugs.

Adolescents with Substance Abusing Parents

Thesis Statement

“The drug addictive parents make a negative impact on the mind of adolescents in United States.”

Introduction

United States, there is great concern of the dual problem of neglect of children related to parental substance abuse. The U.S. Department of Health and Social Services estimated in 1990 that at least 50% of cases of abuse involving substance abuse. More recently, it reported that 88% of records child protection involves a substance abuse from a parent. Studies with drug-addicted parents reported rates of abuse towards a child ranging from 20% to 42%, the behavior of negligence being over-represented with data ranging from 11% to 31%. In addition, the vast majority of studies involving abusive parents show that over a third of them are struggling with a problem addiction (Carroll, 1995).

Very few studies have evaluated the role of substance abuse as a risk factor for poor treatments. In total, only three prospective studies that meet the criteria of the studies Traditional analytical epidemiology (that is to say that the studies involve a group of comparison and the chronological sequence between the onsets of problems documented) identified. Two of these studies show that drug addiction is a factor significant risk of neglect and abuse of children (Killeen, 2000). The drug appears to affect parenting skills for various reasons:

Children exposed to drugs in utero are more vulnerable and are a source of stress additional parents.

The effect caused by the substances makes parents to be less attentive to the needs and safety of children.

The time and resources of parents oriented consumer activities.

Parents often have a set other individual factors (depression, childhood sexual abuse), family (violence domestic), and social (involvement in criminal activity) may influence their parenting capacity.

Research Questions

How parents substance abuse behavior impact children?

How children respond to parent's abuse behavior?

Discussion

Impact on child development

Neglect of children can cause growth retardation, delayed intellectual and language and psychosocial consequences, such as sadness, apathy, passivity and impaired social interactions. In the prenatal period, the lifestyle of the parent drug (e.g., poor diet, health problems) exacerbates the effects of prenatal exposure to drugs on the further development of the child (e.g., small birth weight, prematurity). In the long term, the child living with an addicted parent may have trouble attention, irritability, anxiety, academic problems and possible problems of alcohol and drugs (Chaffin, ...