Research Paper After seeing a man like that I considered myself very lucky. Physically you could call him a man, but mentally he was a young boy. I don't remember his name, but we'll call him Joe. Joe's mother drank while he was in utero. As a result he suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome. Too many women don't realize the developmental effects of using drugs and alcohol during pregnancy. As a result of this many cases of fetal alcohol syndrome go unnoticed and thus untreated. Though we don't hear about this problem often enough it is very prevalent in our society. Nearly one in 500 births results in a child being born to Fetal Alcohol