Characteristics of mothers of children with fetal alcohol syndrome in the Western Cape Province of South Africa: a case control study.

Abstract

This study in South Africa draws upon the experience of mothers of 31 children with FAS to confirm many of the same high-risk variables identified in maternal risk studies in the United States and Europe. Some factors associated with less maternal alcohol abuse in this high-risk population were also identified, which may be helpful for implementing prevention in this region as well as in other developing countries.