Drug and Alcoholic Families

After watching the video I learned a lot about how drug and alcohol addictions can affect the life of many young children. This would raise many issues in a school or classroom such as not being able to have friends over because your parents are addicted to drugs or alcohol. Children would also not be able to go to friends houses because their parents were to drunk or high to take them. Those situations would affect a child's social life at school and in their future life. If a child were being abused at home then the child could be very distant from their classmates and have no friends at all. Having a parent addicted to drugs or alcohol could make the child learn to care for themselves at a very young age. This would then take the parents out of the picture at a very young age, and the parents would have little involvement in the schools.