Children born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome will statistically be cared for not by the mother, but by the community. Therefore, the community should be able to at least in part, have a say in how the child is cared for while in the womb. There is no reason that the interests of one should have to weigh more heavily than the other. The child and the mother can be protected, if we are willing to take the initiative to do something about the problem from a different view. However, as we currently exist in society, we would rather recognize the rights of one or the other and then once the problem exists, we perform damage control.
Prevention is still a possibility.
However, it is going to take the force of the community to initiate this change. The community has to initiate the difference. This is apparent from the failure of the present views to recognize both sides of the issue and come to solution. The research annotated in this work will not discuss to a great extent a community-type approach. This should not be considered as a failure to support the proposed changes stated herein.