Al-Anon's Role in the Alcoholic's Home

EACH significant anniversary of the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous seems to emphasize the fact that alcoholics, like other people, live in a family group. Few of them, proportionately, are homeless outcasts. Although the divorce rate in alcoholic marriages is higher than in more harmonious situations, the majority of compulsive drinkers live in a family setting and continue to affect the daily lives of the three to five people with whom they are intimately associated.