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The Effects of Parental Alcohol Abuse on Children Alcohol is the most used psychoactive drug in the world. It is abused by a variety of ages and ethnic groups. The abusers of alcohol have chosen to live their lives centered on alcohol, but what about their children? Children of alcoholics (COAs) must involuntarily live in an alcohol centered home. Children whose parents abuse drugs and alcohol are almost three times likelier to be physically or sexually assaulted and more than four times likelier to be neglected than children of parents who are not substance abusers. (Califano, 1999) With ...