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Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) has been linked to a wide array of developmental deficits, including significant impairments in social skills. An examination of a social- skills intervention called Children’s Friendship Training found that it led to a decrease in hostile attributions or perceptions of children with PAE. Results will be published in the February 2010 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
He was angry – angry enough to share his story with a stranger, and angry enough to talk about the effects of alcohol on his life in a half hour monologue. His ex-wife was alcoholic, and according to him, probably did drugs also. He kicked her out of the house, then divorced her, and became an overworked single dad to a four year old and a five year. He described his day, which began with night-shift work: pick the kids up from school and daycare, fix them a meal and do laundry and house-cleaning, then drop them off at the grandparents, then off to work all night, then race back to fix the kids breakfast and drop them off at school and daycare, then sleep for five or six hours, and start all over again. His ex-wife, still addicted to alcohol, had pretty much dropped out of the picture.
A new study finds that young children whose mothers abuse drugs may face a higher risk of abuse and placement in foster care. Australian researchers found that infants whose mothers abused amphetamines or opiates were 13 times more likely to become victims of neglect or abuse than other children their age. They had similar odds of being placed in foster care.
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