The Children Say What A.A. Means to Them

I am an alcoholic's daughter. I think what I missed most in my childhood was a feeling of security. A child needs to feel that home is always the same, always a place to bring friends and always a place of strength on which she can rely. Her father should be to her a paragon of virtue. Father's the man of whom mother is always considerate, and the person the child must respect and please. But you all know that the home of an alcoholic is not like this at all. It's an awful strain on a child to know that her father is not like other fathers, that she can't bring other children home because Dad might be tight. I also remember how afraid of Dad I was when he was drunk.