Addicted Children & Why They Do Not Express Their Issues? Angel Intervention Services is dedicated to assisting families in every way possible. When we talk about addicted children in this article, I want to be clear on what that means. As parents, our children are our children no matter how old they get. When I refer to the addicted child, I am talking about people who are age 13, but sometimes younger, to age 60 +, whose parents and/or family members are still living. During our recent move to a larger space and as we begin to work with more families in the Van Wert OH community, I have become painfully aware of the communication problems between parents and the addicted child. I encounter this issue all the time during interventions and it’s a well-known fact in this industry but getting hit in the face with it so readily reminds me how important it is that we address the issue. So many parents, as expected, live in fear. They don’t sleep, often they can’t eat, they suffer depression and all of them suffer from the basic but crippling anxiety that occurs when they have an addicted child.