Clergy's pivotal role in helping children: faith leaders and counselors should partner to help children of addicted parents.

Addiction Professional | March 1, 2008| | Copyright

Our society treasures children and, in many ways, takes a communal responsibility for nurturing, supporting, and protecting them. For example, we try to protect children from family violence, inoculate them against infectious diseases, and provide sound public education. Yet the greater community has shied away from dealing with one of the most common causes of adverse childhood experiences: parental alcohol and drug addiction, which according to a paper presented at a 2006 National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA) Forum may cause lifelong physical and emotional ...

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