Groups focusing on adult children of alcoholics are becoming more common.

Proponents of the movement concede that more research is needed on the adult children of alcoholics.

Profile of adult children of alcoholics called too vague.

Today this means divorced families, families with adult children of alcoholics and single-parent families.

I'm one of those adult children of alcoholics et cetera, et cetera.

ACOA stands, of course, for adult children of alcoholics.

Her dissertation was titled "Interpersonal trust and perceived locus of control in the adjustment of adult children of alcoholics."

Experts say support groups for adult children of alcoholics are often helpful to the spouses of addicts, regardless of the nature of the addiction.

Eventually I found help with Overeaters Anonymous and Adult Children of Alcoholics.

Most members, Ms. Abeloff pointed out, are either adult children of alcoholics, married to alcoholics, or alcoholics themselves.

Many of the men were veterans of A.A. or groups for adult children of alcoholics or child-abuse victims, so they knew the program.

Although not necessarily universal or comprehensive, these traits constitute an adult children of alcoholics syndrome (cf. the work of Wayne Kritsberg).

The company says that its top book, "Adult Children of Alcoholics" by Janet G. Woititz, has sold 1.1 million copies.

"Adult Children of Alcoholics," by Janet Geringer Woititz (Health Communications).

It will be conducted by William Gibbons, an alcoholism counselor who has a private practice in Manhattan specializing in the treatment of adult children of alcoholics.

"Both of my parents were adult children of alcoholics and, growing up in an atmosphere of unresolved anger and rage, I became a classic co-dependent," he said.

Additionally, adult children of alcoholics have lower self-esteem, excessive feelings of responsibility, difficulties reaching out, higher incidence of depression, and increased likelihood of becoming alcoholics.

I tell people to go to an adult children of alcoholics group, because they're dealing with those kinds of issues, even if you're not an adult child of an alcoholic.

The therapy is based on the idea that the childhood experiences of "adult children of alcoholics," or "ACOA's," have left them with unique emotional patterns and problems.

Help for this is available through the Anonymous Fellowship of Adult Children of Alcoholics, which aims to assist the grown-up children of any addictive family.

"If I go to a meeting for adult children of alcoholics," he said, "suddenly I have an explanation for everything in my life that hasn't worked out: oh, it's a disease."

Dr. Janet G. Woititz, author of Adult Children of Alcoholics, endorsed the ACA.

Dr. Woititz's "Adult Children of Alcoholics" offered insights into typical patterns in the families of alcoholics, like lack of self-esteem and difficulty relating to people.

The "home" of "Home Away from Home" refers to the workplace that employs adult children of alcoholics (their "home away from home.")

June was urged to attend Al-Anon and Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) to gain more insight into the scars left by her father's alcoholism.