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Question by P J: What can I do to Help an abused friend who lives far away?
My friend is 13 years old and she lives in what i believe to be an abusive household.

Her brother is 18 and stays in the house and frequently drinks alcohol and uses marijuana as does her father. She doesn’t go into detail but I’m fairly certain they both hurt her physically. Her mother passed away during childbirth and she has no other relatives besides a uncle she refuses to speak about, but from what i can gather, is worse than her father.

She doesn’t go to school and instead her father “home-schools” her, though she says he doesn’t actually do anything and she says no one from the local school district has gone to check on her in years. On that, I’m pretty sure it’s mandatory for home schooled children to have evaluations. She stays home and plays online games and watches TV all day, which i know isn’t technically abusive but she’s not getting an education and I’m worried about what she’ll do after she turns 18.

Question by Emcsuperstar: Please Help Me Quickly!!!?
okay, so last night, I had a friend over to sleepover, I am 15, she is 14. My mum bought us a bottle of wkd to share. I also stole 2 cans of beer off my dad (he won’t notice, and they do not speak any more because they are divorced), and my friend bought round some vodka in a water bottle. In the end, we only drunk the wkd and half of the vodka. However, my mum apparently heard the beer cans clinking, and has only thought to raise it tonight what it was. She asked me if I had anything, and I said no, thinking I had hidden it well enough, but she inevitably found the two cans, and the vodka, because my friend had accidentally left it. Because it was in a water bottle, then I said it was water, but of course she tasted it, and found out it wasnt, and that it was vodka. She said did my friends mum know she had the vodka, and I said my friend said she did, even though I knew full well she didnt. My mum is going to return the vodka to my friends mum, and so my friend is going to be in trouble, which I really don’t want because my friends mum already thinks I’m a bad influence. I’m not too bothered about the cans because although my mum says she will return them to him, then I know he will open the door, see her face and promptly slam the door again without saying anything, and she also knows that, so she probably won’t try to get them back to him.

Question by CassieC: How can you help an alcoholic that won’t help themselves?
How can you help an alcoholic that won’t help themselves? Many will say that you often times have to hit rock-bottom to have the want to work yourself back up. But, what exactly is rock-bottom. To a 45 year old mother of 2, grandmother of 1, you would think that getting arrested 5 times in the past year, having 3 DUI’s in the past 3 months, spending a night in jail, going to 45+ AA classes, having your 17 year old daughter move out, and being physically abused by your alcoholic “boyfriend” THAT would be rock bottom. But, apparantly it is not…. or my mother has completely lost her mind.

In any event. How can you even begin to help an alcoholic that won’t help themselves? Or, for that matter, doesn’t care to?

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Question by Jim M: How do you go about getting help for a “in denial alcoholic”?
There are small children in the home and it can be very hostile – a lot of yelling. Can the children be taken from the home by an agency? I can’t report this because it is a family member, but on the other hand I feel I should, since there is possible jeopardy involved. Talking does no good – everytime the conversation is turned around to deflect the truth.

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Answer by Matthew W
Call Child Protective Services and explain yourself.

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