Dr. Hawkins also believes that the fifth cause of drug addiction is the breakdown of the family. Often father and mother are only interested in what they do, and they do not pay attention to the life and activities of other family members. They can easily involve kids in the same lifestyle.

The alarming increase in the number of divorces means broken families, a result, as a rule, be families without fathers. Modern sociologists and psychologists say that if every family attended a responsible male, the number of crimes committed by teenagers, would be sharply reduced. In many cases, boys-addicts grow up in families where the woman is the only one who has an impact on young family members, or where the husband is under the heel of the wife. Boys lacking a firm male hand, and soon they start to identify with mothers, grandmothers or sisters. Such identification develops in them a feeling of worthlessness, leading them to confusion in relations with parents; they cease to understand their role in life.