The Pain Of Growing Up With An Alcoholic Mother

Decent Essays
To give an example, this article from The Daily Telegraph (a British newspaper dedicated to publishing news articles about different events or stories) titled The Pain of Growing up with an Alcoholic Mother. The article is a recollection of stories about children with alcoholic parents, now adults, how their parents acted and how they perceived them. The article talks about the life of five women, Giselle Mannering (47 years old), Emma Spiegler (29 years old), Caroline Humphrey (20 years old), Susan Blake (44 years old), Natalie Peters (26 years old), their experiences when growing up and how it has affect them even in their adulthood. Susan Blake talks about how she could not rely on her mother when she was a child and had to learn how to

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