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It’s also 100 percent preventable, but it’s not something most people feel comfortable talking about, said Ruth Richardson, program director at the Minnesota Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (MOFAS). And that’s making it hard to deal with the problem.
“Until we shed the shame and the stigma about this issue, there are going to be secrets,” Richardson said. “And that’s going to make it hard to understand its scope.”
I feel bad for that little girl, but is the above serious? People don't feel comfortable talking about it and feel shame because it IS preventable and they made poor choices, which innocent children then have to pay the consequences for.
Jesus H. must we absolve everyone of everything they do all the damn time? God forbid there's a stigma attached to bad behavior. We just cannot have that.
You mean the story was under "editor's pick", not "home" page....that's not the front page & it's a website, not a newspaper. And why do you even have a problem with it? It's simply telling someone's story. And why must you interject liberals into it? Because you have nothing better to do with your time?
Yah, the article is on a web page. & I'm not sure Twin Cities Pioneer Press is a major newspaper anyway. How do they rank in the US? Or in their state or region?
If the story serves to warn pregnant women off drinking alcohol, all well & good. I'm not sure that the people who most need to know this actually read the daily 'paper, but it's probably worth trying anyway.
The other thing is to drive standard obstetrician & attending doctor interviews to be sure to include alcohol & drug use. Routine physicals & intake @ hospital ERs should also include this information - we need every mind that's coming along in the World.
Wow - they really do think we are to blame for everything that goes wrong in their lives!
From the article:
Morgan is mentoring a young pregnant woman who just stopped drinking heavily. She has tried to talk about fetal alcohol spectrum disorders with her family. Her mom listens, she said, but not everyone wants to hear it.
“My other relatives are like, ‘Oh girl, that’s something that white people made up.’
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