Pulling it All Together

In the research data that was gathered, both survey and source, many of the original questions that were asked, were answered.

In the survey it was found that over 80% of the students thought that they may, or definitely do know someone who has a parent who is an alcoholic or addicted to drugs. It also was found that over 95% of the students definitely, or figured that a parents addiction would affect the child. This figures into the fact that alcohol and drug abuse, dependency affect 27% of the U.S. population, and that somewhere between 28 million and 34 million Americans have an alcoholic parent and at least 6 million are children who are still living with them. The research data matches the survey data pretty closely in people at least knowing that addiction affects other people in their lives.

Many of the research questions were answered in detail, like the question "How does living with addicted parents affect your personality now and later?". In the research data it was found that children of alcoholics are affected at a young age and they begin to believe that their parents addiction is their fault, and may even carry that with them through their life. The question "Are there signs that a person shows from living in a household with addicted parents?" was also answered. Obviously from the survey data, if their are not signs 95% of the surveyed would not think they know someone with an alcoholic parent. It was also said in the research data that families with addictions may wall themselves off from the rest of the world, and appear to be lying about what's really going on in their household. The most important question was "How will this affect the relationship between parent and child?".`The parents addiction will strain the relationship. This is seen clearly in the research data. A child may still love their parent very much, but much that they were but through as a child will haunt them, and their relationship as they grow up.