Hope In Spite of the Pain
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
It's an extremely difficult thing if you have a child who isn't following the Lord. John and Danny share about common problems with young adult children today and offer hope to parents who are struggling with discouragement. Featuring Allison Bottke.
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| 0:00.0 | If you have a child who is struggling to make good choices or you know someone who is, |
| 0:07.0 | this episode of the podcast is for you. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny where to who heads our parenting department and Danny the statistics are very disturbing about addiction today in young people. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, I was looking at the National Center for Drug Abuse Statistics, and listen to these, John. |
| 0:25.0 | It says that one of eight teenagers abuse and illicit substance every year. |
| 0:30.0 | Wow. |
| 0:31.0 | So one in eight, and then almost 12 million of 18 to 25 year olds struggle with |
| 0:37.4 | binge drinking. And if you look at the statistics they go all the way to |
| 0:41.6 | eighth graders and eighth gradersers 9% of 8th graders are using substances even alcohol. |
| 0:47.0 | It is a problem. It's a very real issue and the big one for me is that overdose deaths, the big one for me is that |
| 0:55.8 | overdose deaths have gone up 500% since 1999 for 15 to 24 year olds. |
| 1:02.0 | That has to stop. It's out of control. I have a friend whose daughter |
| 1:05.2 | works at an emergency room and she told him, the biggest problem we have, the number one problem |
| 1:11.9 | isn't drugs, it's's alcohol so some of those |
| 1:14.9 | stats that you shared would back that up right in terms of the the availability |
| 1:19.2 | and the abuse of it well we are going to hear now some more from Allison Botkey and she walked a difficult |
| 1:26.3 | journey with her son. Here she is with Jim David. |
| 1:30.9 | Going back to that question of enabling versus helping in a loving way, what were those things |
| 1:36.7 | specifically with your son that you think back on now that you enabled him, that it actually worked against him. For me I think it was making |
| 1:46.9 | excuses, making excuses for the trouble he was getting into and the... What did that sound like in your head when he got into trouble? What did you say to yourself? |
| 1:55.4 | We were living in Southern California, Huntington Beach. He was a young kid that got caught up in the |
| 2:00.0 | punk crowd and the very anarchistic movement, you know, it was all anti-establishment and he would get thrown out of school, he'd play hooky, I'd make excuses well, you know, the teachers don't understand him or they don't really appreciate his intellect or they |
| 2:15.5 | I mean I just well these are things that all of us as parents do I mean that's why I |
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