In the world today, there are babies born everyday to drug addict mothers. The majority of these babies did not receive prenatal care, along with the mothers who usually do not seek medical care either. These babies are less fortunate from conception. A woman that is addicted to drugs is obviously an unfit mother.
The babies born to these women are less fortunate from conception. Most of the women who find out they are pregnant, continue to use drugs. They become afraid to seek any type of prenatal care. This fear is because they feel that a doctor will report them to police, or child protective services and they will be punished. The women that carry the babies to full term, ultimately give birth to them, and leave the hospitals with no consequence. They go home, and continue to use drugs, and the one that suffers out of the ordeal, is the little baby. The baby may be born with a physical deformity, mentally retarded, or even still born. Since the above can not be......
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