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Children as young as SEVEN are being admitted to hospital with alcohol addiction
-380 children aged 10 or under treated for intoxication over four year period
-Figures are likely to be higher as 67 NHS trusts did not supply information
-One seven-year-old boy treated was deemed to be 'addicted' to alcohol
-Affected children often come from homes where alcohol already a problem.

Some families today are astounding. They let their children do whatever they want, even if its bad for them.
And if that didn't shock you enough:

And hundreds more children were rushed to A&E because they were drunk, though not necessarily suffering from an ongoing issue with alcohol.
In some of the cases it is likely the alcohol was consumed accidentally, although the data held by hospitals does not always specify this.
In one worrying example of child neglect, a two-year-old boy was rushed to a hospital run by Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust last year after accidentally drinking vodka.
And in another case, a baby who hadn't even turned one was hospitalised in Gloucestershire after sustaining a head injury while intoxicated with alcohol.

Some people just shouldn't be parents, especially alcoholic ones.

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Article published today at noon. Last updated at 1pm.