How to Tell Your Kid That You're a Drunk

Kim had imagined that coming home would be like “a utopia,” she said, but she was a stranger, and everyone was furious. “I realized I didn’t know my kids anymore,” she said. There was tension in the house over who was the mother figure. She heeded the advice of a counselor at an outpatient clinic. Let them be angry. Let them say what they need to... See more
The Rage, Secrecy and Pain of a Family Torn Apart by Addiction


Preslee Scott spent more than one afternoon in her early teen years picking up her dad’s empty beer cans and dumping them in the outside trash can after he’d fallen asleep on the couch.
So in December, when the Utah teen was asked by her 10th-grade English teacher to write an essay about something that had changed her... See more
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