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• Pregnant Binge Drinker Faces No Criminal Charges

  If there’s anything sadder than domestic violence, it’s domestic violence involving a pregnant woman and an insane quantity of booze. Last week, New Zealand police, responding to a 4 a.m. domestic violence complaint, found a heavily intoxicated woman whose partner had hit her over the head with a bottle. She was nine months pregnant, and had been drinking with her partner for eight hours straight. The man was imprisoned on assault charges, but police were uncertain about how to deal with the mother-to-be. Read More... Posted Jul 08 2008, 05:45 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: jail, drinking while pregnant, fetal alcohol syndrome, domestic violence, new zealand, pregnant women, substance abuse, binge drinking, legislating pregnancies, maternal substance abuse, addicted mothers, against the law

• They say: Drinking with your kids makes them less drunk

  Now we've all gotten drunk. Fall down, sloppy, mess-making drunk. My first bad drinking experience involved vodka, straight up, in a garage during a thunderstorm. It ended badly. I had a couple of others, but not too many that included me puking my guts out. But it happens. According to this article from Time magazine, it might happen less if you drink with your kids. Read More... Posted Jun 24 2008, 09:30 AM by Brett Singer with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: kids, drinking, alcohol, behavior, college, Time Magazine, babble talk, alcoholism, Bad Parent, Brett Singer, drunk, they say, binge drinking, permissive, essay

• Pregnancy and Booze: A Match Made in France

  Back pain and swollen feet bringing you down? That bloated feeling making you want to jump out of your skin? Make like the French, and have a vodka tonic, or even a couple of sérieux (roughly translated as, “one serious beer.”) According to a new study, 52 percent of French women consistently hit the bottle while pregnant. I knew I was a French major for a reason! Read More... Posted May 06 2008, 12:30 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, alcohol, beer, drinking while pregnant, fetal alcohol syndrome, France, french, binge drinking