Family problems and domestic violence

Abstract

This article approaches the psychopathologist and dysfunctional relations derived from the excessive alcohol consumption by some members of the family, its incidence in the domestic violence, including the aspects related to the children of alcoholics through the national and international scientific literature, as well as descriptive and empiric researches in this field. In this sense, the data published confirm the close relationship existing between alcohol consumption and family disorders, regardless of who is the person suffering alcoholism. Evidence show that a significant percentage of victims of domestic violence associate this kind of conduct of their partners with heavy alcohol consumption. Notwithstanding the fact that the alcoholic and domestic violence family background of the children of an alcoholic is directly associated with potentially serious psychopathologic factors as insecurity, anxiety disorders and failure in school, recent researches show a strong controversy regarding the hereditary consequences that may arise as a result of an excessive alcohol abuse. The measures taken should focus on the parents educational capacity as well as on the way they educate their children, in order to reinforce the children protectionism factors with regard to the genetic predisposition and mimicry of dependency to alcohol of some of their progenitors, defending the environmental and educational transmission in the fact of being brought up in an alcoholic household, and in the retard of the initiation age.