Originally Posted by
PaperDolls 
My dad told me a long time ago that children of alcoholics (or addicts) either become alcoholics themselves or completely stay away from it. Made sense to me even though it's probably not 100% true.
Your father is an intelligent man.
The only exception to that rule that I know of is my mom and one one her brothers and her sisters. They'll have 2 drinks at the most and be done. I don't even know if my mom has ever been blacked-out drunk, because I've never seen it. Her brother though, that I've never met, lives in Vancouver and from what we know is an addict on the streets.