Smoking During Pregnancy

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Pregnancy is an important stage in the development of human life. The physiological and physical development of the fetus is greatly determined by the activities of the mother during this first nine months, which happen to take place in the mother’s womb. Whatever is consumed by the mother somehow also ends up in the fetus’ system and can greatly determines its development. Substance and/or drug usual during pregnancy is widely recognized as a major public health concern with harmful effects on both mother and the unborn child. Many countries in the world try as much as possible to control this and safe the unborn fetus.
For the purpose of this peer review I will consider the following articles; “Mental health treatment needs among pregnant and postpartum woman/girl entering substance abuse treatment”, and “Relationship of maternal smoking during pregnancy with criminal arrest and hospitalization of substance abuse in male and female adult offspring”.
The first article is a study carried out using secondary data that had been validated and the purpose of this study was to examine self-reported mental health in a population of women and girls who were pregnant in the past year and are entering substance abuse treatment, and to determine whether
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(Brennam, Grekin, Mortensen, & Mednick 2002.). This brings to light the problems of maternal prenatal smoking and how it affect the male and female offspring. Evidence had been suggesting that maternal prenatal smoking could have been particularly related to antisocial behaviors which may include conduct disorder, delinquency, fighting, and hyperactivity. Recently, studies have linked maternal prenatal smoking to criminal offending by offspring in adulthood behavior outcomes in male offspring and substance abuse problems in female