Problems That Affects a Family

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Problems That Affects A Family In every society there is the good and the bad aspects, which can be defined in a good or bad way. There are many issues affecting our country of Belize, but awareness on these issues are lacking because of insufficient of funds. Even if such issues have been brought up some individuals are not being fully informed. Family is defined as a family is a group of two or more people that are related by blood, marriage, adoption, step or fostering, and who usually live together in the same household. In the excerpt the abuse of alcohol, violence in the home, and the absence of the mother are dominant factors which clearly affects the family; these will be explained. They're various factors to can affect a family but one issue in particular that is usually associated with it is Alcohol abuse or Alcoholism. After interviewing a couple of people, alcohol abuse is mostly one of the main reasons that they are problems in a home. Phycology today defines Alcohol abuse as a chronic disease characterized by the consumption of alcohol at a level that interferes with physical and mental health and with family and social responsibilities. An alcoholic will continue to drink despite serious health, family, or legal problems. In 2010 a N.G.O groups assist in doing a research on Alcohol and drugs in the district of Corozal. The Results of a census recorded that the population of Corozal Town was 9,871 people. Program Director Community Restore's, Loraine Zuniga mentioned that approximately 60 to 65 percent of the adults registered in the census have a drinking problem. This is just shows that alcohol is very present and easily attainable in the community. These statistics is showing that there is a serious problem here for us at people because more than half of the population of who were registered for the census has a drinking problem and that means

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