Prenatal Abuse Problem

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This research question seemed good because it asks a questions to a very serious problem that is more prevalent than some may think. I want to answer this question both because I never knew, and because I’m sure many others don’t either. Being the problem that it is, many people would assume that a mother would never in a million years put their baby in harms way by doing those kinds of drugs. However, obviously because of addiction, the mother does and the results are children with prenatal addictions through the mother that end up having health complications of their own.
Besides having those prenatal dependencies, there can be various many other problems the child suffers as well. Mental and behavioral and physical abnormalities can

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