If you are a believer that it is OK to have a few alcoholic drinks when pregnant you are running a serious risk of giving birth to a child who is misdiagnosed with ADHD or pervasive learning disorder and making your life a misery for the next thirty years.

When I first became aware of this problem in society at the time in the US gaols (2000) 40% were said to be there as a result of their mothers drinking when pregnant. Social workers had a saying for it: the boys get locked up, the girls get knocked up.

The alcohol industry here has knowingly not followed some precedents from the United States and put warning labels on bottles and it is quite tragic and turns my stomach when I see a visibly pregnant woman drinking.

Unfortunately most female party goers do not realize they are pregnant for six weeks by which case they are behind the eight ball even if they stop drinking immediately as most damage is done when the fetus is in embryonic stage.

This has catastrophic results in disadvantaged groups, particularly aborigines but is not rare among educated but uninformed people. I know for a fact that the Queensland governments recommendation is that two standard drinks a day is RECOMMENDED!!!!!!!!! WTF?????

If it is okay for a daily drinker to have two then how many are not going to do any harm after a few, then a few more!!!

If you don't believe it do some research. I speak from close knowledge and it ain't nice!

It may also go some way toward answering why it is that some kids you know just cannot behave.

The alchohol industry has a huge hold on a lid just waiting to blow. Tobacco is not good for mums but it does not result in brain damage (that I know of anyway).

It's time.

Rules:
- Maximum 1/day/person

(thought a change was due. Explanation about this photo below...)