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Anne Buckley
PSY 210
Throughout the years, studies have shown that prenatal alcohol use can cause physical and mental disabilities in infants and children. According to Anderson "fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is expressed as a pattern of mental, physical, and behavioral defects which may develop in the unborn child when the mother consumes alcohol during the course of her pregnancy" (88). This can be a very dan ....
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.... Welkselman thinks that fetal alcohol syndrome affected infants frequently are measured at birth to be below the tenth percentile for their age in length, weight, and head size. These children never catch up to their peers and they remain in the tenth percentile for these measures throughout childhood (298). Physical effects are more common in children whose mother had a low dose of alcohol during pregnancy. This proves that even a low dose of alcohol causes physical handica ....
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