Growing up in a home with drugs
Everyone always talks about the effects drugs have on the user, how it affects their health and their mental state, however the part that seems to be left out is how the users drug addiction alters their children 's life. “Over 8.3 million children, nearly 12 percent of all children in the United States, live with an addict.” (Levinson). With number so devastatingly high there should be more focus on these suffering children. The impacts from having a parent who is an addict not only cause harm during childhood but can leave lasting effects that last throughout adulthood. They tend to have no sense of belonging and suffer from depression, however it can also invoke a sense of motivation.
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Why is it that they start maturing at a faster rate? These adolescents spend most of their time feeling as though they need to take care of their parents. Spending time making sure their parents have had something to eat, or making sure their parents have not overdosed while they are at school while other children are out playing. This in turn causes the adolescent to have a more developed way of thinking. Maturing at a younger age allows for him or her to start down a path towards achieving their goals while most other young adolescents are spending their free time partying or experimenting. Now while the brain of said child may be emotionally unstable in certain areas, they have learned things that a great deal of children do not learn so early on. They learn independence, because they have had to care for themselves for most of their lives; they learn how to deal with reality on a realistic scale because they have been forced to face such harsh truths at a young age; and they understand how to learn from past experiences. “The ability to face reality and to relate positively to life experiences derive from the ability to learn from experience. Immature people do not learn from experience, whether the experience is positive or negative”(Murray). Being able to use a horrific experience and let it change your life for the better is an immense sign of
Everyone always talks about the effects drugs have on the user, how it affects their health and their mental state, however the part that seems to be left out is how the users drug addiction alters their children 's life. “Over 8.3 million children, nearly 12 percent of all children in the United States, live with an addict.” (Levinson). With number so devastatingly high there should be more focus on these suffering children. The impacts from having a parent who is an addict not only cause harm during childhood but can leave lasting effects that last throughout adulthood. They tend to have no sense of belonging and suffer from depression, however it can also invoke a sense of motivation.
It should be no surprise …show more content…
Why is it that they start maturing at a faster rate? These adolescents spend most of their time feeling as though they need to take care of their parents. Spending time making sure their parents have had something to eat, or making sure their parents have not overdosed while they are at school while other children are out playing. This in turn causes the adolescent to have a more developed way of thinking. Maturing at a younger age allows for him or her to start down a path towards achieving their goals while most other young adolescents are spending their free time partying or experimenting. Now while the brain of said child may be emotionally unstable in certain areas, they have learned things that a great deal of children do not learn so early on. They learn independence, because they have had to care for themselves for most of their lives; they learn how to deal with reality on a realistic scale because they have been forced to face such harsh truths at a young age; and they understand how to learn from past experiences. “The ability to face reality and to relate positively to life experiences derive from the ability to learn from experience. Immature people do not learn from experience, whether the experience is positive or negative”(Murray). Being able to use a horrific experience and let it change your life for the better is an immense sign of