CJ Liu talks to author Claudia Black. Claudia shares her own experience growing up with father who was an alcoholic and the fear and shame that children who grow up with addiction feel about themselves. She explains that everyone in the family (kids, spouses, etc.) are affected by emotional abandonment that is commonly caused with addiction. However, she explains later in the interview that this can also be cultural and is generalized to whenever there is emotional abandonment.

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