Map 430 Genes and Addiction

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Bottom row Great, Great Grandparents -  class each number as a bottle of beer
Second row Great Grandparents - watch them accumulate
Third Row Grandparents - and again
Fourth row Parents - and again
fifth row You - Sum total

Variations on a generational theme.

What can you do to stop passing on these markers of alcohol to your children.

Your child will get those 9 markers from you plus any markers your husband or wife may have. Genes are a perfect example of extrapolation the only way you can stop the rot is to be tea total. Marry someone who is also prepared to be tea total. In that respect your children may follow your example because they are not drinking either. Whatever that choice they still have nine markers.

Lets see how we can reverse the damage.

So here you are as a Grandparent 9* luckily you married a woman who came from a family that didn't drink a great deal so only had 2 markers but even then its still increasing that potential for problems and your child now has 11 markers but once again your child marries a man who comes from a family who dont drink much and has only 2 markers even so by the time your grandchild comes along the 9 has now become a 13. Ever expanding Jupiterian style but in reality kept remarkably low all things considered. So it would appear that you can help keep the figures low but you cannot remove them altogether even if you have five generations of non drinkers your count has still increased but you should be proud to show that the markers have been kept low others might be increasing much more quickly. Take a person with 5 markers who marries someone with the same 5 markers and the other grandparents had 5 markers each. This is nearly half what you alone started with but it leaves a final marker on the child of 20. So whilst you cannot erase the past much as we might want to you can affect the future. Generations in front of you will be eternally grateful. 

So you have managed to keep your grandchild's count lower than it could have been but you cannot change what already is. So next time we see young people lying in the gutter throwing up instead of judging them we should feel the shame for the energies we have passed on to them in previous generations. We really need to look at this now because it can only get worse and it does not bode well for the future of planet Earth. 

How true only abstinence can create a better future.

Please feel free to substitute the bottle symbol for any other potential gene marker. Cancer, depression, hemochromatosis, cystic fibrosis, etc., none are blame worthy but all are expanding and increasing the human potential rates. The future can only have more of the past.