Older, more educated U.S. women are much more likely to drink while pregnant, a new federal study released on Thursday concluded.
And.
It could be that they have more money to buy alcohol or that drinking is more socially acceptable for that group, said Claire Marchetta, a CDC research fellow and one of the authors of the study.
“We do not know all the exact reasons,” Marchetta told Reuters. “Clearly, further research is needed to delineate this issue.”
From here.
Clue for the researchers: “older, educated women” are comfortable doing their own research and being older means they also have more experience with questioning heavy-handed public policy.
You can see links to all the other posts I have written on the topic of light drinking during pregnancy and control over pregnant women at the bottom of the comments on this post.
Umm, drinking is not classified here as to how much, what trimester and what kind of ETOH.
a glass of wine or a beer or two a week is not fetal harmful.
That is exactly the point here Trisha. Are you in Australia? There are lots of posters around with the advice that the safest alcohol intake during pregnancy is none – despite there being no evidence this is actually true.
Yep. I was kind of amazed by the number of people that were absolutely horrified I’d have a half glass of cider every so often after I’d gone and read the research and asked doctors about it. But then again, I got told off by the same people for taking panadol too…