How does living with a parent that drinks affect teen and child development?

drinks as in drunk?
or in moderation?


For drunks... it depends how the alcohol affects the parent

if they are abusive drunks then it can make them detest them and people who drink or ultimately lead them to depend on alcohol themselves because they have learned from a young age that alcohol is a method to ease your problems

If in moderation they probably just engage in drinking as a social activity as they get older with a more positive attitude towards it

Parents who drink heavily/frequently do have a negative effect on child development. The basic issue is that you're taking attention away from the child. Parents don't provide the kind of positive feedback and stimulation that kids need to grow up happy and feeling loved. Children of alcoholics are twice as likely to be depressed as adults.

If you're talking about how having a parent who's an alcholic interferes with child development the two most obvious answers that come to me are that the children whether they are young children or teens they blame themselves they think that if I was just better daughter or son or athelit or student or what ever than dad or mom won't drink. Second is that they learn that the way to deal with problems is to self medicate. There is a genetic proponet to alcholism, but there are a lot of people who have alcholics in their families who don't be come alcholics themselves. My daughter's father is and his mother was as was her father. And all of them had watched a parent drink during their childhood. I have been seperated from her father for seven years and I put her into therapy the age of four so that she would not grow up blaming herself for her father's drinking or for his lack of parenting skills. If you asked my daughter whether or not she wants to see her father she'll roll her eyes and ask why should she see him when he's not seen her in seven years?? He doesn't call her or send her birthday cards or Christmas cards. He does't know what school she's in or even what learning disabliltes that she has to deal with. He can't tell you for sure what grade she'll be in in Sept. because all of his other children had been held over at least once during their education. She's the first child of his that hasn't been because I make sure that she gets the help that she needs. When she turns 18 she wants to change her last name to mine because she says that her father hasn't done anything for her but for half of her DNA. Children and teens that live with their parent all of the time learn to hide the fact that they have parent with a problem. They learn to try and get rid of the beer or lilquor by pouring it out which in turns makes them sneaks and liars. They may have to grow up parenting both the parent and any other siblings because the parent can't parent. They may have to learn how to cook before they normally would so that they can get to have a meal. they may be the one to do the wash and shop for food. Most of the time it means that they have to grow up before they should so that someone is there to take care of them and the parent.