Imagine a kid dreading coming home from school every day because of what they know they will find. Imagine them feeding and taking care of their siblings, when they themselves are in need of care.

When you grow up in a home with one or more alcoholic parents, the impact of the dysfunction reverberates throughout your life. It can be challenging to understand how this type of early interaction ...

The brains of alcohol-dependent individuals are affected not only by their own heavy drinking, but also by genetic or environmental factors associated with their parents’ drinking, according to a new ...

The son of our editor sometimes drinks non-alcoholic beer. What started innocuously turned out to be a surprisingly complex parenting question: How much symbolism is in a beer bottle? And how does it ...