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This 8 page paper discusses some of the problems that arise within dysfunctional families, and what that means for the children of such families. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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enough when the parents are hard-working and responsible and the children reasonably well-behaved; it can become a nightmare when the parents are dysfunctional. This paper considers what happens to children
whose parents are dysfunctional. Discussion There are many concepts to be explored in connection with dysfunctional families: we will look at problems exacerbated by drug and alcohol abuse, lack of
education, and what the impact on children is of parents who are incapacitated in some way. We will also try to find out what experts say about ways to keep
these types of parents from ruining their childrens future. But we begin with a brief statement of why we should care about any of this. The answer is simple: children,
as is pointed out by experts from education to government, are the future. They are the people who will run the government, run business, enter the medical and dental fields,
write music, paint, dance, sing opera. They will be our teachers and counselors; they will build and fly our planes and drive our trains. If we are to have a
society that works, we have to have our "best and brightest" running it. Children who come from dysfunctional families have obstacles to overcome that others do not. We need to
understand the obstacles these children face in order to help them and by doing so, help society as a whole. There are a number of children today "growing up in
situations where the interactions between family members are far from healthy ... Children who are developing both physically and psychologically in these families become stunted" (Riddle 244). These are the
children who then become alcoholics, delinquents, drug addicts and "psychological misfits" (Riddle 244). The saddest part of the entire situation is that the children trapped in these families have no
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