... also logically brought about by maternal smoking. Spontaneous abortions in early pregnancies are usually associated with malformations and chromosomal aberrations in the developing fetus. A study was made by Naeye that death rates due to malformations increased when the mother smoked more than ten cigarettes a day. His study included 100 pregnant women who smoked ten cigarettes a day and 100 pregnant women ... one year old in the United States. Five major studies, conducted recently, show that maternal smoking greatly increases the probability of SIDS. In one study, 125 children stricken...

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... are likely to stay poor for a longer period of time. (Calhoun 311) The children born to teenage mothers sometimes score lower on development tests than the children of older mothers. It seems that rather than declining over time, educational deficits increase in severity and the children show lower ... . Teen mothers face greater health risks than older mothers, such as anemia, pregnancy induced hypertension, toxemia, premature delivery, cervical trauma, and even death. Many of these health risks are due to inadequate prenatal care and support, rather than physical immaturity. The teenage...

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