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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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CHILDREN   occurs   30 times 25 in BB  •  5 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... children.  BB How It Works, p.62
He is the Father, and we are His children.


2.
  ... children?  BB To Wives, p.108
Is it right to let him ruin your life and the lives of your children?


3.
  ... children.  BB To Wives, p.115
You do not know what to tell the children.


4.
  ... children.  BB To Wives, p.115
The same principle applies in dealing with the children.


5.
  ... children.  BB To Wives, p.116
You may be afraid your husband will lose his position; you are thinking of the disgrace and hard times which will befall you and the children.


6.
  ... children.  BB The Family Afterward, p.134
The alcoholic may find it hard to re-establish friendly relations with his children.


7.
  ... children?  12&12 Step Four, p.50
Did I spoil my marriage and injure my children?


8.
  ... children and may show irritation when reproved ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
He may take small interest in the children and may show irritation when reproved for his delinquencies.


9.
  ... children, and were presented with sick ones, ...  12&12 Step Two, p.31
We prayed for healthy children, and were presented with sick ones, or none at all.


10.
  ... children are sometimes dominated by a pathetic ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.134
The children are sometimes dominated by a pathetic hardness and cynicism.


11.
  ... children be so unthinking, so callous, so ...  BB To Wives, p.107
How could men who loved their wives and children be so unthinking, so callous, so cruel?


12.
  ... children demand that he stay home and ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
Instead of developing new channels of activity for themselves, mother and children demand that he stay home and make up the deficiency.


13.
  ... children distracted, bills in arrears and standing ...  BB A Vision For You, p.155
It was the usual situation: home in jeopardy, wife ill, children distracted, bills in arrears and standing damaged.


14.
  ... children don't think so.  BB The Family Afterward, p.126
Sometimes mother and children don't think so.


15.
  ... children for their father.  BB To Wives, p.106
We have tried to hold the love of our children for their father.


16.
  ... children, his "in-laws", each one is likely ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.122
The alcoholic, his wife, his children, his "in-laws", each one is likely to have fixed ideas about the family's attitude towards himself or herself.


17.
  ... children home to father and mother.  BB To Wives, p.106
Perhaps at this point we got a divorce and took the children home to father and mother.


18.
  ... children, kicked out door panels, smashed treasured ...  BB To Wives, p.106
They struck the children, kicked out door panels, smashed treasured crockery, and ripped the keys out of pianos.


19.
  ... children; let the solving of these problems ...  BB The Doctor's Opinion, p.xxviii
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement.


20.
  ... children, nearly always takes up his marriage ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.119
The alcoholic, realizing what his wife has endured, and now fully understanding how much he himself did to damage her and his children, nearly always takes up his marriage responsibilities with a willingness to repair what he can and to accept what he can't.


21.
  ... children of a living Creator with whom ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.28
If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may form a relationship upon simple and understandable terms as soon as we are willing and honest enough to try.


22.
  ... children of alcoholics, is a part of ...  BB To Wives (Note), p.121
(*) The fellowship of Al-Anon Family Groups was formed about thirteen years after this chapter was written. Though it is entirely separate from Alcoholics Anonymous, it uses the general principles of the A.A. program as a guide for husbands, wives, relatives, friends and others close to alcoholics. The foregoing pages (though addressed only to wives) indicate the problems such people may face. Alateen, for teen-aged children of alcoholics, is a part of Al-Anon.


23.
  Children of chaos, we have defiantly played ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.146
Children of chaos, we have defiantly played with every brand of fire, only to emerge unharmed and, we think, wiser.


24.
  ... children of college age.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.39
His income is good, he has a fine home, is happily married and the father of promising children of college age.


25.
  ... children of such men suffer horribly, but ...  BB To Wives, p.114
The wives and children of such men suffer horribly, but not more than the men themselves.


26.
  ... children or your friends.  BB To Wives, p.111
Be determined that your husband's drinking is not going to spoil your relations with your children or your friends.


27.
  ... children, sad wives and parents -- anyone can ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
It brings misunderstanding, fierce resentment, financial insecurity, disgusted friends and employers, warped lives of blameless children, sad wives and parents -- anyone can increase the list.


28.
  ... children that I would drink no more ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.177
I used to promise my wife, my friends, and my children that I would drink no more -- promises which seldom kept me sober even through the day, though I was very sincere when I made them.


29.
  ... children, we had felt very happy and ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.115
Where people had temporarily let us run their lives as though they were still children, we had felt very happy and secure ourselves.


30.
  ... children will see they ask too much, ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.127
Little by little, mother and children will see they ask too much, and father will see he gives too little.


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