Essay: Drinking alcohol during pregnancy

Throughout this course, you will be progressively building a research paper that will be
submitted in stages to the instructor.
Each of these stages is important to help you organize your thoughts and
write a thorough review of established literature on a particular topic. The finished product for this assignment will be a double-spaced, 10–15-page paper (not including title page, abstract, and
references) addressing your chosen topic.
You must include at least 10 relevant journal articles in your
paper. All articles must be empirical*
and recent (written within the last 5 years unless the citation is linked to an
author whose work is seminal to your topic).
This paper should be written in a scholarly fashion, strictly adhering
to APA standards. Do not express your
own opinion.

You should use the following guidelines in constructing
your research paper:

Title page.

Abstract page.

Introduction should define
and discuss the importance of your topic.

The body of the paper should
organize the topic in a meaningful way and critically review the current
empirical knowledge base relevant to your topic.

A conclusion section should
include a discussion of practice/policy implications/recommendations and
future research directions.

Reference page should list
at least 10 primary empirical sources.

Follow APA Publication
Manual organization and style guidelines.
Points will be deducted for format violations and grammatical
problems.

Reports
of empirical studies summarize original research. Many journal articles are reports of
empirical studies. In order to learn how
to review the literature, it is important to be able to read and understand
reports of empirical studies. Empirical articles have the following
sections: abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion, and
references.

Babies Deserve A Good Start! Alcoholism:

Drinking alcohol during pregnancy is
harmful to the fetus because it can cause mental retardation, low
birth weight, learning disability, and long-term consequences. The
affects of drinking alcohol while pregnant can lead to long term
detrimental problems with infants. Even though Alcohol is integral
part of daily life. Alcohol abuse causes a myriad of serious problems
FAS children have trouble with balance, coordination, learning, and
memory skills. Others are mentally retarded varying from educable to
severe retardation. Learning disabilities may show up in school.
Hyperactivity, short attention span, and other behavioral problems
are common. Studies have shown that an average of one to two drinks
daily do decrease birth weight and growth size. The incidence of FAS
is approximately one to three per 1,000 live births.