Additionally, children from chemically dependent families are more likely to develop negative psychological and physiological effects. In a recent reading by Scott Russell Sanders, he recalls some of the mental trauma associated with such abuse related to having a family member chemically dependent on alcohol. “When he was drunk, our father was clearly in the wrong. He has become a stranger, as fearful of us as any cemetery madman, not really foaming but quite fierce, angry, explosive; or else he would become sullen and weepy, which frightened us almost as much” (Norton