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Our common
welfare should come first, personal recovery
depends on ACA unity.
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For our group
purpose there is but one ultimate
authority--a loving God as expressed in our
group conscience. Our leaders are but
trusted servants, they do not govern.
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The only
requirement for membership in ACA is a
desire to recover from the effects of
growing up in an alcoholic or otherwise
dysfunctional family.
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Each group is
autonomous except in matters affecting other
groups or ACA as a whole. We cooperate with
all other 12-Step programs.
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Each group
has but one primary purpose--to carry its
message to the adult child who still
suffers.
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An ACA group
ought never endorse, finance or lend the ACA
name to any related facility or outside
enterprise, lest problems of money, property
and prestige divert us from our primary
purpose.
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Every ACA
group ought to be fully self-supporting,
declining outside contributions.
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Adult
Children of Alcoholics should remain forever
non-professional, but our service centers
may employ special workers.
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ACA, as such,
ought never be organized, but we may create
service boards or committees directly
responsible to those they serve.
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Adult
Children of Alcoholics has no opinion on
outside issues; hence the ACA name ought
never be drawn into public controversy.
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Our public
relations policy is based on attraction
rather than promotion; we maintain personal
anonymity at the level of press, radio, T.V.
and films.
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Anonymity is
the spiritual foundation of our traditions,
ever reminding us to place principles before
personalities.