Many teens have a secret. The secret is that their parent is an alcoholic. While most teens have stresses in their lives, teens who live with an alcoholic parent have extra stress.
Alcoholism is a disease that often tears apart families.
While the teen loves the person who is drinking, they do not love the behavior. Often, alcoholic parents are emotionally or physically abusive to others in the family. Sometimes drunk parents get violent, or they do embarrassing things in public. You are not alone, if you have an alcoholic parent. Remember that the only person who can change the alcoholic behavior is that person.