adult children of alcoholics

Offers adult children of alcoholics guidance to help them deal with the emotional and psychological toll their parents' addiction has on their lives, explaining how to break free from the dysfunctional cycle and develop effective coping strategies.

Studies the relationships between alcoholic mothers and their daughters and discusses the roles the daughters have to take on because of their mother's addiction.

Author Barbara Robinette Moss recalls the heartaches and despair of growing up poor and hungry with her mother and alcoholic father in rural Alabama.

Includes candid testimonials of eight children and six adults who describe growing up with an alcoholic.

Gene Cheek describes his childhood in North Carolina with his loving mother and abusive, alcoholic father, tells how he was torn from his mother's home at the age of twelve when his father filed a complaint in court that she was unfit due to her involvement with an African-American man, and discusses the lasting impact of that event on his life.

Young Jacob learns a terrible lesson about dependency and addiction, forcing him to decide whether he wants to waste his life with drugs and alcohol.