Paper Summary:

The paper aims to identify some of the financial, physical, social and emotional risks to children in substance abusing environments. The paper explores the impact of parental addiction on future delinquency and some interventions that are implemented to intercept or prevent these experiences for children and families. The paper emphasizes that parents have a tremendous task in warding off social and emotional factors that lead to delinquency.

Outline:
Exploring Childhood Experiences in Substance Abusing Environments
Intervention Strategies in Addictive Homes
Learned Delinquency
Creating Change

From the Paper:

"Several factors in a child's life contribute to future delinquency. Those most widely discussed are family dynamics and parenting, peer relationships, and personality traits. Parental substance abuse infiltrates each of these domains as it alters how the family unit functions, how children interact socially and establish peer relations, and how a child's sense of self, subsequent behaviors, and emotional wellness evolve. Although parental substance abuse also may result in prenatal syndromes such as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect, which impact cognitive function and decision making, these issues are beyond the scope of this discussion."

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