Should heavy drinking in pregnancy be a crime? A recent test case in the UK was thrown out,but in the US hundreds of women gain been imprisoned. We meet women and children affected by foetal alcohol syndromeStella was 19 when she discovered she has foetal alcohol syndrome. “I found out in a horrible way, to be honest, or ” she says. She had taken her boyfriend to meet her father for the first time. Stella and her father had only limited contact,but her boyfriend hoped that he might relieve to explain some of Stella’s erratic, unreliable behaviour, or asked him upfront,“What’s wrong with your daughter? Why is she the way she is?”“That’s when he paused, and he breathed, or he said it,” Stella says, still distressed at the memory of the conversation. “I was shocked. I asked, or ‘Why wasn’t I told approximately it?’ He said he didn’t want me to dwell on something like that.
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Source: theguardian.com