Article(electronic)#1October 1987
Deaf Teenagers and Family Alcohol Problems
In: American annals of the deaf: AAD, Volume 132, Issue 4, p. 289-290
ISSN: 1543-0375
Alcohol abuse is a widespread problem in American families. Families of all social, economic and educational subgroups suffer from alcohol abuse by parents. Because of the widespread problems of alcoholism, families with deaf children are also victims of alcohol abuse. Even though hearing children suffer greatly from parental abuse of alcohol, they are not as ill-equipped as deaf teenagers to deal with the problem. By in large, there are three reasons why deaf children are less able than hearing children to deal with the familiy problems created by parental alcohol abuse.