While alcoholism and child abuse are widespread problems in today's society, alcohol is a more widespread problem. The Glass Castle clearly illustrates the reality of the effects when we, as adults, mistreat our children, and the everlasting effects it has on our children's children; domino effect if necessary, or vicious circle from which it is difficult to break free. Regardless, perhaps alcoholism and child abuse go together like fuel and fire; when both combined and united, both are extremely combustible and deadly. So, as we delve deeper into the effects of alcoholism and child abuse, we will analyze the impact on people's lives from a social, emotional, physical, psychological and economic perspective by connecting our personal effects to successfully analyze a controversial topic. Rex Walls, Jeanette's father, was fundamentally rational when it came to logic, an inventor, and a fairly intelligent being, but lacked the ability to maintain an economic position to support himself. of his family. His mother, Erma Ruth, sexually abused him when he was a child, which later led to alcohol abuse as he questioned his masculinity and self-confidence. Clearly, his mother's actions affected him psychologically for life, leaving him to deal with such shame through the sole means of numbing his pain through alcohol. However, to what extent did this man lose sight of the fact that his problem was not childhood abuse, but his own personal needs, as an alcoholic, which had become the real problem? He never sought therapy to sober up, which took its toll on his family. “A few months after Dad lost his job, he came home with a bag of groceries” (p. 68), because of his alcoholism he was unable to maintain a steady job which... in the middle of paper. ....until the very end of his sixties. For that, I respect Rex's decisions as he lived life, and Jeannette, even if his Glass Castle was an illusion, it was an illusion that he did his best to achieve, and of course , what matters in the end is that we did our best. effort, and that's what Rex did for his family! Primary source: The Glass Castle by pages by Jeannette Walls (68, 112, 280, 180-181, 225, 212-213) Secondary sources: - The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society by Louisiana State Medical Society- Interactive journal as brief Intervention for Level II DUI and DWI Offenders by Amy Mary Scheck, Norman G. Hoffmann, Steven L. Proctor, and Ryan J. Couillou- Commentary: Gabapentin for Alcohol Use Disorder by Jon O. EbbertSocial-emotional factors in Alcohol Addiction by Deyashini Tikka, Daya Ram, Indu Dubey and Sai Tikka