(((Mallowcup))) there are no coincidences. Than you for being there for that baby... my prayers are that she can take your example as one she wants to emulate in her life.
I think we all know addiction/alcoholism runs in families. With even ONE parent an alcoholic, every child in the family has FOUR times the chance of becoming one themselves.
And they are babies when they start... my kid was 12 or 13. Who the heck chooses much of ANYthing at that age? And my son in law was 9... NINE!
These babies need protecting and then become... almost overnight...the ones we need protecting from.
It is a crazy, crazy-making condition. I am sorry for the little girl, Mallowcup, and for her brother... and for her mom - who is still trapped in her crazy world.
Sometimes choice is all it takes, sometimes not.