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[mfh]

This weekend it came up that my mother had smoked and drank alcohol while she was pregnant. She said, "It's hard for people to imagine that they didn't know then that smoking was bad for you, but they didn't think it was a big deal!" We started talking about how there are all kinds of things that happen and we don't find out until later that they'

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[jrbiii]

And I am sure you can find examples where children sued their mothers for drinking or smoking or doing drugs while pregnant with them, as an instance of child abuse.