Understanding the escalating wave of addiction and mental illness coming at the American family from the COVID-19 onslaught can help strengthen the imperative of “seeing” the children right in front of us. These are the children struggling with parental addiction, which is traumatizing for them; the children whose lives at home have been spinning out of control for as many years as they can remember. These are the children who greet school with gratitude and sighs of relief after every holiday; the children who desperately need student assistance programs (SAPs) now more than ever before. COVID-19 and “stay-at-home” quarantine mandates have been double whammies, crushing hope for the millions of children who still are not back in school or are only periodically there. For these children, home is a place of excessive drinking, drug use, blaming, shaming, fear, anxiety, and chronic emotional stress.
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