First of all, borax (sodium tetraborate decahydrate) in water produces boric acid and raises the pH. So the studies on boron toxicity that refer to boric acid are absolutely relevant for Borax as well.
Just as a family history of alcoholism does not guarantee that you will become an alcoholic, neither does growing up in a very troubled household with alcoholic parents. Just because alcoholism tends to run in families does not mean that a child of an alcoholic parent will automatically become an alcoholic too.oth parents abuse alcohol and other drugs; the parents' alcohol abuse is severe; and. conflicts lead to aggression and violence in the family. The good news is that many children of alcoholics from even the most troubled families do not develop drinking problems.
Almost 50 percent of all children are expected to experience the. divorce of their parents and to spend about five years in a single-parent household. And, 40. percent of adults currently in first marriages will become members of stepfamilies before their. youngest child reaches 18 years of age. Of young adolescents in stepfamilies, 28 percent will. experience the end of that family within five years due to divorce.