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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
CHILDREN occurs
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1.
... children?
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Did I
spoil my
marriage
and
injure my
children?
2.
... children.
BB p.62,
How It Works
He is the
Father, and we are His
children.
3.
... children?
BB p.108,
To Wives
Is it
right to let him
ruin
your
life and the
lives of
your
children?
4.
... children.
BB p.115,
To Wives
You do not
know what to tell the
children.
5.
... children.
BB p.115,
To Wives
The same
principle applies in
dealing with the
children.
6.
... children.
BB p.116,
To Wives
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.
7.
... children.
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
The
alcoholic may find it
hard to
re-
establish friendly relations with his
children.
8.
... children and
may show irritation when reproved ...
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
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 p.31,
Step Two
We
prayed for
healthy
children, and were
presented with
sick ones, or
none at all.
10.
... children are
sometimes dominated by a pathetic ...
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
The
children are sometimes
dominated by a
pathetic
hardness and
cynicism.
11.
... children be
so unthinking, so callous, so ...
BB p.107,
To Wives
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 p.131,
The Family Afterward
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 p.155,
A Vision For You
14.
... children don't
think so.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
Sometimes
mother and
children don't
think so.
15.
... children for
their father.
BB p.106,
To Wives
We have
tried to
hold the
love of our
children for their
father.
16.
... children, his
"in-laws", each one is likely ...
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
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 p.106,
To Wives
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 p.106,
To Wives
19.
... children; let
the solving of these problems ...
BB xxviii(xxvi),
The Doctor's Opinion
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 p.119,
Step Twelve
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 p.28,
There Is A Solution
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 p.121,
To Wives (Note)
23.
Children of
chaos, we have defiantly played ...
12&12 p.146,
Tradition Four
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 p.39,
More About Alcoholism
25.
... children of
such men suffer horribly, but ...
BB p.114,
To Wives
The
wives and
children of
such
men suffer horribly, but not more than the
men themselves.
26.
... children or
your friends.
BB p.111,
To Wives
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 p.18,
There Is A Solution
28.
... children, we
had felt very happy and ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
Where people had
temporarily let us
run their
lives as though they
were still
children, we had
felt very
happy and
secure ourselves.
29.
... children will
see they ask too much, ...
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
Little by
little,
mother and
children will see
they
ask too much, and
father
will see he
gives too
little.
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