Essay #3 article
The article I chose to use as reference to my third essay is called The Horrors of Growing Up in a Meth Home. It was written by Emily Baucum on May 12, 2010. Emily describes the reality of growing up in Missouri, the number one state with meth lab busts. Emily talks with a young teenage brother and sister who escaped their meth addicted mom and the chaotic and hard life she forced them to lead. Now 16 and 17, Victoria and Joe were able to get away from their mother and into a foster home. These young kids describe the horrors of being kids born to drug addicts in the Ozarks, seeing their mom shoot up for the first time when theuy were very little. Victoria and Joe decribe their life without food in the house, seeing the physical tole the drugs took on thier mother, whose teeth are now all gone, and the violence that plagues the life of any addict. Emily also describes the point of view of Allen Bangs, a foster parent who has housed more then 10 children from drug addicted families. Allen describes the effects that addiction has on these children and the type of qualities this life puts into them. At the end of this sympathetic and thought provoking article, Emily tells her readers about the movie Winter's Bone, a look at the life of a teenage girl struggling to get through life in the meth trade in the ozarks without falling victim to the hold of drugs that has ruined so many people in her life.

This article really fit the bill for my essay becuase I am choosing to write about the deep impact drugs and addiction have on the children forced to grow up in the middle addiction. Winter's Bone is really about the children who are forced to grow up, to make adult decisions, to take care of the adults who SHOULD be taking care of them, and the lasting impact this life will have on them. The vicious cycle of drugs and abuse is deep, and the long term effects this lifestyle has on the children of these homes is sad and sickening. Ree is a young woman growing up in horrid circumstances in the heart of the Ozarks, yet hasn't let herself fall victim to drugs, and is trying desperately to keep her brother and sister fed and out of harms way. I am sure for many of the children that grow up in meth houses, they aren't as strong. Many of these children fall into the vicious cycle of addiction, ending up as drug addicts themselves, leading the same lifestyle they grew up in. I plan to explore this vicious cycle and understand why it might be hard for children of addiction to not be as strong as Ree Dolly in Winter's Bone.
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Aricle by Emily Baucum
Citation:Baucun, Emily. "The Horrors of Growing up in a Meth Home." OzarksFirst.com. Nexstar Broadcasting, May 12, 2010. Web. 11 Mar 2012.
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