15 year old drinking problems

It depends on the child/teen relationship with his/her parents. I lost my dad when I was 12 but I had a loving mom that I was close to. While there are some kids who have both parents at home and aren't close to either.

In my own opinion, this problem happened because the child needs a complete family. Ma sure he felt deep pain in his heart seeing his parents separate. If the father in only present in the family this thing might not happen to the boy. I know some teen agers are doing this because they are disturbed of their family's problems. They are affected so much that they use drinking as their way of forgetting their pain. The cause if this is emotional problem.

I am not surprised. My brother and I both had drinking problems before we were 21, and the reason why was because of the situations we were in and because of the people we were around.

I think it is a matter of the crazy person running the asylum. She needs to get control or let him move to his dads.

You can't blame an absent father for all the problems, sorry, I was a single Mom and had none of those problems. Some kids just feel the need to rebel. The woman needs to learn what makes her son tick and use that to discipline him. At 15, my son was into sports, this was the leverage I used. He still needed rides to practices and games, if he wanted that he had to go with the rules. Maybe the kid should go with Dad, provided he can provide a better environment, that is leverage he will no longer have. When my son played that card, his father said that he did not want him.

That is one of the bad results of a broken marriage. Had the parents been living happily together, they could have done equal share in raising and training up their son to become a good person. How sad! Broken marriage has a very bad effect on the children more often than not. I'm also sad for the mother. She is in a helpless situation here. I just wise the father will do something to bring back the child to his senses. If only the parents could kiss and make up if only to save their son from going to the worse.

I think that she should just say go ahead..things aren't going to be any more rosier at a fathers home. The mom shouldn't let a child do that to her she should call the bluff..or if it is real then make them live with dad and tell dad no special treatments so that he realizes that he will have to mind wherever he is. Might stop the blackmail once a person/kid thinks they have something to hold over your head then they are going to use that ace card whenever they want to get a reaction out of them. So her best bet would talk to the father get him in on it then send him to dads and make it like boot camp..lol

Hi rondaldinu, You are quite right that a father figure may make a difference here, but there has to be more to it than that. I know some women who have done a great job in raising children on their own after leaving an abusive relationship. I also know many two parent families who are doing a terrible job. In this case the mother does need to seek help because the problem has gone too far. When a child in trying to blackmail a parent, he has a weapon that no child should have. I have seen that happen as well in two parent families and it has bad results for both the parent and child. Often the child leaves school without graduating and continues to make other very poor decisions in life. The problem here is that the child has a power over the parent and he doesn't have the maturity to know what's best. I don't know all the facts in this case so I am only generalizing, but she really needs to seek help. It is highly unlikely that this child would go live with his father, but as I said earlier, I don't know the facts of this particular case. Blessings.

Such problems are a common sight in those single parent family.. Because when they are deprived of either fatherly or motherly love, it sorts of leave an impact on them. And they will choose to find that kind of feeling from elsewhere.. PLus, most kids wont really understand the hardship which the parent is going thru, and thus they become spoil when the parent tries to give them a better life.. As for this case, i think the boy will need counselling, and hopefully, that will make him understand about the things happening around him..

Hi ronald..coming from a broken background my father wasn't around either, but I think in each individual case there are different problems, I rebelled in my teens and in the end had to leave home,through other circumstances, but the whole broken family problem brings about all sorts of other problems individually...littleowl

Hi ronaldinu, In my opinion, he is fifteen, and he is behaving like this and have no respect for his mother, then she should say to hem as he is always going on about his dad, then he sholud go, I wouldn't put up with that, I would let his dad deal with him and see how he liles it, these kids today has far to much freedom and have no respect for their parents. Tamara

Hmmm...I wonder how he was brought up by the parents. Was he closer to his dad? If that's so, I guess it's not surprising that he would blackmail his mother like that. If he has some issues regarding his mother, the mom should better talk to him first.

Teenagers at this age face these problems due to associates or demonstration things.