FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS florida resource guide

SECTION 4Diagnosis of FASWe havenever meta woman whodrank through herpregnancy to hurther baby. I don’tthink she exists.– Clarren, S. 2002Responses to the PRAMS survey were asfollows:▪ Women 20 years and older withhigher education drank more thanyounger, less educated women▪ 85 to 90% of young women reportedthat their doctor talked with themabout the effects of alcohol on theirbaby, while only 70% of women 35years and older reported such adiscussion▪ 70% of heavy drinkers versus 90% oflight drinkers reported that theirdoctor had talked with them aboutdrinking▪ 10% of women reported continuing drinking and no reduction indrinking▪ Heavier smokers were more likely to use alcoholIn a recent study of 80 birth mothers of children with FAS(Astely, Bailey, Talbot, & Clarren, 2000):▪ 23.8% had foster parents▪ 17.5% lived in group home▪ 35% had been in a juvenile detention center▪ 22.5% were involved with Child Protective Services as a child▪ 80% had birth children who had been in foster care or ChildProtective Services▪ 57.5% were sexually abused as a child▪ 46.2% were physically abused as a child▪ 51.3% were sexually abused as an adult▪ 85% were physically abused as an adult▪ 86.3% were emotionally abused as an adult▪ 95% were sexually and/or physically abused at some timeStudies of maternal alcohol consumption consistently report thatwomen who have one child, and continue to drink, have progressivelymore severely fetal alcohol affected children with subsequent pregnancies(May, Hymbaugh, Aase, & Samet, 1983; Davis & Lipson, 1984; Abel, 1988).20 FETAL ALCOHOL SPECTRUM DISORDERS florida resource guide