17% of adults felt unsafe as children when parents drank

NEARLY a sixth of Irish adults admit to having felt afraid or unsafe as children due to their parents drinking.

17% of adults felt unsafe as children when parents drank

The research from Alcohol Action Ireland (AAI) also shows that nearly a fifth of Irish adults remember witnessing drink-related arguing among their parents.

This comes after a National Study of Domestic Abuse found, in a third of cases, alcohol was a potential trigger for abusive behaviour and that in one-in-four of the most severe cases, alcohol was always involved.

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