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Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) affects children’s decision-making before committing a crime and their capacity to comprehend the consequences. Locking them up isn’t the answer.
Researchers are uncovering the ways by which dad, mom or both parents drinking can result in fetal alcohol syndrome and other lifelong effects on children.
New Zealand’s long history with heavy drinking has taken a toll on generations of children. Government policy needs to target fetal alcohol spectrum disorder before it happens.
Public health messaging has focused on the drinking habits of the mother during pregnancy. But a growing body of research shows that what dad is drinking before pregnancy matters too.
Liberal Party backbencher Sharman Stone told the Q&A audience that Australia has some of the highest rates per capita of fetal alcohol syndrome in the world. We check the research.
The UK government are finally waking up to the problem of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
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Professor of Physiology, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Associate Professor, Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health, University of Cape Town
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Senior Principal Research Fellow in Epidemiology of Birth Defects, including Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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St George's, University of London
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Professor of public health policy, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
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Professor, University of Salford
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Lecturer, Stellenbosch University