Alcoholism is like an illness and can affect people of all ages and from all walks of life. It does not discriminate.

People with a drink problem have lost control over their drinking and usually need help to stop. As hard as it is for those around them, only the person drinking can make the decision to accept help.

However, you can feel better whether your parent continues to drink or not.

The effects of parental alcohol misuse don’t just disappear once children reach 18 or move away from home.

Problems often continue into, and sometimes only become apparent in, adulthood.

Millions of adults in the UK are still being affected by their parents’ drinking or the knock-on effects of growing up in a home where alcohol was a problem.

A child of an alcoholic can be 1 or 101 – it doesn’t change the fact that your parent, step-parent or carer is, or has been, dependent on alcohol, along with the problems this brings.