Maternal alcoholism and its impact on child health

Abstract

Maternal alcoholism hinders the normal development of child and threatens his mental and physical health due to three factors: the hereditary transmission of predisposition to alcohol abuse; alcohol consumption during pregnancy; adverse family environment. The children of mothers suffering from alcoholism revealed are characterized by increased risk of depression, anxiety and other mental disorders, including alcohol and substance dependence. The adverse impact of maternal alcoholism (or, to speak more widely, parents' alcoholism) on the child health requires special preventive and treatment programs for both parents and children. Separation from the mother (even if the mother is addicted to alcohol) seriously injures the child, and therefore treatment programs for alcohol abusing women should be focused on the possible continuation of the parental rights of patients.

Birth Defects Associated with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure—A Review

“…The identification of an alcohol-related congenital syndrome (fetal alcohol syndrome, FAS) [5,6] have guided the literature on early developmental risks and prenatal alcohol exposure. Since that time, the teratogenic effect (ability to induce or increase the incidence of congenital malformations or neurobehavioral disorders) of alcohol has been widely studied [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. According to the US National Institutes of Health (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov; October 2019), more than 17,000 articles arise linking the terms "fetal" and "alcohol".…”