coping with substance
abuse in your family?
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ARE YOU CARING FOR THE
CHILD OF A SUBSTANCE ABUSER?
If you are a relative - kin - taking care of a child, then you are what is called a kinship caregiver. Maybe the child is your grandson. Maybe it is your niece, your grand-nephew, or your cousin. The fact is, more and more relatives are taking over when a parent's drug or alcohol use has left them unable to take care of their own children.
Whether the parent is in a treatment program, in jail, deceased, on the streets, or has lost custody because of child abuse or neglect, kinship caregivers are the new first line of defense in the war against drugs.
Once you open up your home to a child (and maybe even several children) lots of issues come up. What to say to the children. How to deal with their addicted parents. How to prevent the cycle from repeating itself. Click on the topics below to get suggestions, tips, and strategies for handling what is never an easy situation: