-=> Quoting Jane Kelley to Regina Finan <=-
 RF> I'm sure parents with children born with FAS appreciate their children
 RF> called "mutant".  Give me a break.  You are looking at children as some
 RF> kind of "alien".
 JK> Lady, I don't particualarly give a tinkers dam if they appreciate it
 JK> or not.  The blunt truth is that FAS is usually the result of ingestion
 JK> of alcohol by a pregnant woman.  Period. And that causes the problems
 JK> the child encounters after it is born.
 No I said parents with these children don't appreciate it. Sooner or later,
 a child is going to read that and come to the conclusion they are a freak.
 JK> The blunter the facts, the more they are presented to anyone who is of
 JK> child bearing age, the faster we end FAS children and the faster we
 JK> end the damage done to other babies by other drugs as well.
 I agree with the point that women should not drink before and during preg-
 nacy, including taking of drugs, but this has nothing to do with this echo
 area.........ADHD!!!!!!!!!! If it does than please explain it to me again.
 I must of missed it.
 JK> Got a problem with that? Or do you think that coddling mothers who
 JK> drink is the answer to FAS?
 Where did you get this from.  I did not imply that what soever.  Disorders
 are disorders.  I don't call my children mutants because they are ADHD.
 I did nothing wrong during my pregnancies.  I did not drink, I did not take
 drugs.  When I was pregnant with the twins, I took folic acid and drank
 rasberry tea to strengthen my cervix in order not to lose them.  Now I'm
 not sure it did any good, but I tried.  I still had them early, I still
 had birthing problems, and my son still had ADHD.  I don't always sympathize
 with the parent, but I don't try to make the matters worse and give them
 an excuse for their actions to continue.
 JK> They need to be held up to public disapproval for their actions and
 JK> feel the entire weight of society's judgement on their behavior until
 JK> this ends.
 This does not mean that you or anyone else has the right to publically
 blast a child for whatever the mother or father did and in essence this
 is what the final outcome is.  Mother or dad feels the impact, gets an
 excuse to continue with the abuse, and child suffer even more.  Then we
 continue to blame the parent when in essence we had a hand in making it
 worse.
 As long as their is alcohol and drugs it isn't going to end.
 Regina
       
... ARRRRRGGGHHH!!!! ... Tension breaker, had to be done.
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