[rickmichaels]

...and comes from a stable family background.

What kind of family would let their daughter get hammered out of her skull at 12 years old and let it continue regularly for another eight years?

[AnAmericanMother]

What kind of family would let their daughter get hammered out of her skull at 12 years old and let it continue regularly for another eight years?

Must have been blind drunk themselves.

Anybody who drinks like this, it sweats out of their skin and stinks to high heaven for hours. No way her parents didn't know she was boozing . . . unless they're drinking too - then you can't smell it because you smell of it yourself.

[GSlob]

Something else must have been at work there - one would think that it would take more than 5-8 years to get to advanced stage cirrhosis. From the experience of heavy duty alcoholics I used to know it would be more like 15 yrs plus.

[xm177e2]

What kind of family would let their daughter get hammered out of her skull at 12 years old and let it continue regularly for another eight years?

I think a "stable" family background is like saying that the USSR was a "stable" government--literally true, but really missing the point.