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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

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...alcohol during gestation presents a very real problem both in this country and elsewhere. Alcohol during pregnancy appears, unfortunately, to be a phenomena which is increasing not declining. In 1991 for example 12.4 percent of women reported having consumed alcohol during their pregnancy (Larkby, 1997). By 1995 this number had reached 16.3 percent and the reported rate of "frequent drinking" was four times higher than it had been in 1991 (Larkby, 1997). The incidence of those children who are affected by exposure to alcohol prenatally vary according to researcher. West, Perrotta and Erickson (1998) report the incidence of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome as ranging between 0.2 and 3.0 affected birth per 1000 live births. Abel and Sokol (1991) estimate 3.3 cases per 10,000 live births. Abel and Sokol (1987) estimate, however, that approximately six percent of the children of alcoholic women will have the condition. Abel (1988) stresses that those siblings born after the first affected sibling run risks as high as seventy percent of having the condition as well. Children who are...

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