Family is the basic unit of society. Families are composed of parents and their children who live in a community. A family has always been the solid foundation of love and support for teens, their only solace apart from their peers. But what happens to this teens when their only source of strength is gone? When the family they wished for is slowly dying in their very own eyes and losing its love towards each another? When the day comes that parents would file divorce against each other? Well, that's where teenage alcohol addiction comes into place.

Divorce among parents is one of the leading reasons for teenagers to drink. Teenagers are forced to take mature responsibilities like taking care of their siblings and or even earning a living for the broken family. Needless to say, the pressure of choosing one parent over the other is also stressful for a teenager. As a result, teenagers react negatively on the situation by resorting into drugs or alcoholic beverages. Teenager's ability to cope up with problem is not that strong enough handle. They will have hardships on overcoming these types of issues although many of them can cope up with this issue, but, sadly not all.

Such issues play a very important role in their mental state and hence, they turn to alcohol in order to get them away from these issues. Additionally, teens whose parents had recently been divorced were more likely to drink alcohol in greater quantities more frequently and were more likely to be under the influence of alcohol.

Divorcing parents must keep in mind not to disregard their children despite existing change in family setting. When their children grow up and become teenagers, the social stigma of living with a broken family will haunt them and make them walk away from the path of right direction.

Dysfunctional family lifestyle keys in also as one of the main psychological problems faced by teens that can lead to drinking. Teens with parents who faces financial or relationship problems may start drinking for comfort. They are unable to cope with these issues and tend to get depressed, thus, resulting to drinking alcohol. Not only this, but if one or both of the teens' parents are alcoholic, according to one study, teens may be up to seven times more likely to become alcoholics themselves as compared with teens who have nonalcoholic parents. Many times teenagers witness their parents fighting and verbally abusing each other. This also affects their mental state.

Parents must remember amidst all these their responsibilities in the development of their children especially in the teenage years. They play a significant role for their development and behavior and help them to walk into the path of righteousness not into alcoholism instead.