Light drinking may not be a risk to unborn babies

Believe it or not, studies show that light drinking(one or two drinks a week) may not harm unborn children. Although, the government still say that mothers should not drink while pregnant, the findings proved that boys whose mothers were light drinkers had less conduct problems and were less likely to become hyperactive, and girls had a thirty percent less chance to have emotional problems. The British Medical Association argues saying that this study might cause mothers to develop a false sense of security and cause them to think that they were given a green light to drink. Their advice was to abstain from drinking while pregnant.

I think that mothers should not drink so they can prevent harming unborn children. It may be possible that light drinking would not harm them, but mothers should not take any chances. Besides, many intelligent people were not born to light drinkers.

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