FASD – Wisdom from Long Ago
“You will conceive and give birth to a son. Now then, drink no wine or other fermented drink.”
( Judges 13:7)
In ancient Carthage, a ritual developed that forbade the drinking of wine by the bridal couple so that a defective child would not be conceived. (500 BC)
“Foolish, drunken and harebrained women most often bring forth children like unto themselves, morose and languid.” (Aristotle 350 BC)
“Parental drinking is a cause of weak, feeble and distempered children.” (Royal College of Physicians 1726)
“Infants born to alcoholic mothers sometimes had a starved, shriveled and imperfect look.”
(British House of Commons 1834)