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Jessica LaSalle and Harley Wood Ms. Forrest Language arts 21 March 2012 Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Trouble FAS and FAE are big problems all over the world. But not many people even know what FAS and FAE are. FAS is fetal alcohol syndrome and FAE is fetal alcohol effects. Both are caused by mothers drinking while pregnant. Both conditions are also permanent. Two preventable, barely known, permanent conditions that my partner and I only found out about because of my brother, who has FAS. Fetal alcohol syndrome—FAS—is a more severe condition than fetal alcohol effects (FAE). It only takes one drink to cause FAE or FAS and as it is, 1 in every 750 babies are born with FAS. Another 40,000 are born with FAE… and that’s in justAmericaalone. As a matter of fact, alcohol is the leading preventable cause of birth defects in theUnited States(KidsHealth). We can’t stop pregnant mothers from drinking, but we can help raise awareness of FAS and FAE and hopefully, in doing so, pregnant mothers will stop themselves from drinking. My partner and I started a group called FAST (fetal alcohol syndrome troubles) to start raising awareness, but now we need other peoples help to keep this going. As it is, you can like FAST on Facebook. But that is only part of our solution. The rest of our solution to raise awareness for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and FAE is we are going to be handing out flyers, putting up posters, telling people about it, and making a Facebook, and a YouTube account. You can help raise awareness of FAS and go to [|www.facebook.com/stopFAS] and help support it by liking the page.

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