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Warpy

(111,270 posts)
Wed Nov 15, 2023, 10:00 PM Nov 2023

https://www.sciencealert.com/mens-drinking-habits-can-have-a-shocking-effect-on-their-unborn-child

Men drink more, are more likely to binge drink and are almost four times more likely to develop alcohol use disorder than women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Yet when it comes to diagnosing babies born with birth defects associated with alcohol consumption, such as fetal alcohol syndrome, historically only the mother's drinking habits are taken into consideration.
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Our studies are the first to demonstrate that male drinking before pregnancy is a plausible yet completely unexamined factor in the development of alcohol-related craniofacial abnormalities and growth deficiencies.

https://www.sciencealert.com/mens-drinking-habits-can-have-a-shocking-effect-on-their-unborn-child

Finally. The animal model studies have been done and verified for over a decade now. I suppose research was draging its collective feet because the spectre of FAS was such a great way to control young women.

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