CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PHYSICAL, NEUROPS YCHIC AND SOMATIC DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN BORN TO ALCOHOLIC PARENTS

Analysis was made of the physical, neuropsychic and somatic developmen t of children whose parents suffered from chronic alcoholism as compar ed to the control group children. Retardation in the physical developm ent (primarily in body weight with alcoholic mother, in the height wit h alcoholism of father or of both parents) and in the neuropsychic dev elopment, the higher general somatic and infection morbidity, the incr eased level of the stigmas of dysembryogenesis and developmental abnor malities were detectable significantly more frequently.