According to the U.S. Census Bureau 10,657 babies are born every day and twenty of these babies are born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Alcohol is the most commonly abused substance by pregnant women because it legal and socially acceptable (Mercer, 1990). Many pregnant women are not aware of the complications that go along with pregnancy. Even more young women see pregnancy as a way of bringing a life into the world but do not change any …showed first 75 words of 1120 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1120 total…getting themselves and their unborn babies into to help prevent this disease. They should know that with the imbalance of their meals and alcohol consumption that their children are suffering and cannot at times be given that chance to live and survive in society as normal children should. Because of the lack of education that they have they do not understand that what they do to themselves is also what they do to their children.