Summary:
Elizabeth Walling is mainly stating the problem with pregnant women smoking and having the affect of aggressiveness in children that most of us don’t pay attention to. She defines that aggressiveness of the child with quickness in biting, kicking, bullying and hitting. She gives the statistics of the women with antisocial behavior and smoking more than 10 cigarettes a day which is 67% and those who smokes less than 10 or 0 cigarettes a day which is 16%. She also tells us that families with higher income than $40,000 has 8% chance of having aggressive children and with lower than $40,000 has 5 times more risk of having aggressive children. She says that if the mother has a history of antisocial behavior and income lower than $40,000 then perhaps they are the main reason for the aggression in children. She says child aggression is just one more negative affect to add on the list of reasons why women shouldn’t smoke during pregnancy among prematurity, respiratory problems, low birth weight, etc.
Personal response:
I think the author is strongly trying to get the message out for the women who smoke during their pregnancy and I completely agree with her. I can see that if you prefer not to spend time with other people you might be shy or you don’t like to be other people, or you are just don’t know how to communicate and having lower income than $40,000 might means your life is not like you wanted. It creates roughness and loneliness in life. You feel like you have no future may be, but that doesn’t mean you should smoke; in particular when you are pregnant. I don’t understand why women smokes when they are pregnant knowing how it has negative effect on their children. Do they just not care or do they think that my child will be fine?
Walling, Elizabeth. "Smoking during Pregnancy may Cause Aggression in Children." Http://www.naturalnews.com/026119_smoking_pregnancy_health.html. 24 Apr. 2009. Web. 18 Oct. 2009.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Pregenent women cause aggression in children.
Posted by Karple at 3:40 PM
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I think the lady who wrote this article should go sit down with O.B. doctors. I started smoking when I was 15. At 19 I found out that I was pregnant. Immediatley after the shock of finding out that I was pregnant I threw my pack of cigarettes in the trash! The doctor picked them out of the trash and handed them back to me and said your baby is already addicted if you quit your baby will mostly die. He told me that I had decided in the right choice to not smoke during pregnancy but I just could not quit on the spot! He did howerever tell me to start reducing my cigarettes and quit whithin the next 3 months and the baby would be fine. So, I did. However I did crave them because I was addicted after she was born and turned 1 I started right back up due to my husbands deploy to Iraq. When he got back I quit again because we were trying to have a baby. So, I quit before I got pregnant again. I still to this day am a smoker; I wish I could quit. So, my POINT is this Doctors tell pregnant women it is bad to JUST quit smoking while pregnant due to the risk of loosing the baby because while it maybe legal it is a drug that you get addicted to. And just for an FYI! Our family has 3 girls, live under $40,000 dollars a year, I smoked during the first 5 months of my pregnancy with my first daughter and I have an emotional illness that I take medicine for and ALL my girls are fine and NOT aggressive. So this person clearly needs to do more research before ranting to the world. I do think you did a great piece though and I do agree with you on NOT smoking while your pregnant or any other time!
Good article, and I'm glad to see that you stated your position! Yea, Patel!!!
I think my mom smoked when she was pregnant with me, and while I am not a very aggressive person, it may explain a few other questions that I've had!!! No doubt that smoking causes some behavioral changes that are not positive. Smoking never creates anything positive or useful, unless you are trying to make smoke. In that case, it's quite effective.
As to the comments about the $40k a year... I consider a good year when I make that much. I've never made more than $45k in my whole life. I don't feel full of despair, or lonely. I do, however, have hopes of achieving more at some point in the near future. In the meantime, I'm just thankful for what I have.
Good Job, Patel!
So this was an eye-opening article. I did not have any idea that smoking could effect the way a child behaves. I'm a smoker (trying to quit) but my fiance isn't. She has told me how detrimental smoking is when you're pregnant. I understood it was not healthy and I would never let her smoke while she was pregnant. But I never got what exactly smoking would do. Thank you for this story. I learned a lot.
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