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Smoking during pregnancy fosters aggression in children |
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Women who smoke during pregnancy risk delivering aggressive kids
according to a new Canada-Netherlands study published in the journal
Development and Psychopathology. While previous studies have shown that
smoking during gestation causes low birth weight, this research shows
mothers who light up during pregnancy can predispose their offspring to
an additional risk: violent behaviour.
What's more, the research team found the risk of giving birth to
aggressive children increases among smoking mothers whose familial
income is lower than $40,000 per year. Another risk factor for
aggressive behaviour in offspring was smoking mothers with a history of
antisocial behaviour: run-ins with the law, high school drop-outs and
illegal drug use.
Psychiatry professor and researcher Jean Séguin, of the Université de
Montréal and Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Center, co-authored the
study with postdoctoral fellow Stephan C. J. Huijbregts, now a
researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands, as well as
colleagues from Université Laval and McGill University in Canada.
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