Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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The Deletrious Effects Of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome



This essay will consider information about fetal alcohol syndrome and it's

deleterious effects on the unborn fetus and the repercussions that follow after

birth and through life. In my opinion alcohol is responsible for the detrimental

effects on the innocent, unwilling participants of alcohol abuse through their

mother's inability to cope with life's hardships or the inability of understanding the

spectrum of affects alcohol can cause on the unborn baby. This essay will show

that mother's who drink alcohol, no matter what the quantity, will have a severe

impact on her offspring's mental, physical and psychological capabilities

commencing in the womb, to birth and through his or her existence. This essay

will examine three main topics of discussion. First it will show what fetal alcohol

syndrome is and how it affects the prenatal world. Secondly, it will show how it

affects the fetus when exposed to alcohol at all stages of life. Finally, it will show

the statistics of fetal alcohol syndrome on youths.


"Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), fetal alcohol effects (FAE), alcohol-related

neurodevelopment disorder (ARND), alcohol related birth defects (ARBD) and

alcohol-exposed static encephalopathy (SE) are all terms for the defect which

occurs to a child when his or her mother drinks alcohol during pregnancy

(Streissguth, 5)". It causes a birth defect that targets the brain from the

pre-embryonic stage, to the fetal stage and has lifelong consequences. Some of

the most crippling secondary disabilities that people with FAS/FAE face include

mental health problems, disrupted school experience, inappropriate sexual

behavior, trouble with the law, alcohol and drug problems, difficulty caring for

their children, and homelessness. "It is estimated that one in every ten children

born have some form of thi...