This thesis tries to present the experience of children/adolescents who come from alcoholic family systems. The theoretical part focuses on the importance of a functional or dysfunctional family for the child's development. I explore how does a family as a system with alcoholic parents, influence their own children their perception and behavior and also emotions that are frequently experienced by children of alcoholics. It explores how children perceive their parents as alcoholics, how they value themselves and how everything I have mentioned affects their interpersonal relationships and behavior. In the empirical part of the qualitative analysis of two interviews, I explore what two adolescent girls who have an alcoholic father are experiencing, how is their relationship towards their father displayed, and what are their relations in general. I have discovered that they deal the most with feelings of guilt, confusion, fear, anger and despair and towards their father they experience emotions of ambivalent qualities. The family environment with all of its specifics affects their thinking, emotions, behavior and interpersonal relationships. Next to their experience they are confronted with the question of meaning; wondering why do they come from a family of alcoholic parents. I figured that a crucial factor in their life are all the relationships with significant others (friends, youth group leaders, etc.). The results cannot not be generalized to the wider population, as it is a selected pattern, with its own specifics depending on age, gender, social networks and so on.
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