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warch · 12-03-2003, 01:51 PM

There is also the money. Your money.
Here are some stats to believe or not. If not, stop by you local public school.

The cost to American taxpayers for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is estimated to be $5 million a day. $1.9 billion/year:
National Institute on Drugs and Alcohol

On average, each FASD individual costs the taxpayer more than $4 million in his or her lifetime (health problems, special education, psychotherapy and counseling, welfare, crime, and the justice system).

More than 60% of prisoners are likely affected by alcohol in utero. It costs approximately $120,000/year to "house" a Young Offender and $82,000 for an
adult offender. Punishment does not cure neurological damage.

Add on:
the FASD individual's own lifetime loss of income;
the high costs to the families (foster, adoptive or biological) who raise and care for FASD children and adults;

the lost income of a parent who must care for the exceptionally high needs of an FASD child;the costs to families whose FASD child is permanently dependent upon them;the costs of legal services for defending their child in the courts;the cost of stress caused divorce, etc.

12-03-2003, 01:51 PM	#22
warch lurkin old school Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Minnesota Posts: 2,796	There is also the money. Your money. Here are some stats to believe or not. If not, stop by you local public school. The cost to American taxpayers for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is estimated to be $5 million a day. $1.9 billion/year: National Institute on Drugs and Alcohol On average, each FASD individual costs the taxpayer more than $4 million in his or her lifetime (health problems, special education, psychotherapy and counseling, welfare, crime, and the justice system). More than 60% of prisoners are likely affected by alcohol in utero. It costs approximately $120,000/year to "house" a Young Offender and $82,000 for an adult offender. Punishment does not cure neurological damage. Add on: the FASD individual's own lifetime loss of income; the high costs to the families (foster, adoptive or biological) who raise and care for FASD children and adults; the lost income of a parent who must care for the exceptionally high needs of an FASD child;the costs to families whose FASD child is permanently dependent upon them;the costs of legal services for defending their child in the courts;the cost of stress caused divorce, etc. Last edited by warch; 12-03-2003 at 01:54 PM.