How has FASD impacted our Society

Has anyone asked the question for violent perpetrators such as Son of Sam David Berkowitz, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahlmer and others who have captured the media attention as serial killers? I would bet we would be amazed at how many were fetally exposed to alcohol.

Wikipedia states (among other traits):

The element of fantasy in a serial killer's development is extremely important. They often begin fantasizing about murder during or even before adolescence. Their fantasy lives are very rich and they daydream compulsively about domination, submission, and murder, usually with very specific elements to the fantasy that will eventually be apparent in their real crimes.
Some serial killers display one or more of what are known as the "MacDonald triad" of warning signs in childhood. These are:

Fire starting, or arson invariably for the thrill of destroying things, for gaining attention, or for making the perpetrator feel more powerful.
Cruelty to animals (related to "zoosadism"). Many children may be cruel to animals, such as pulling the legs off spiders, but future serial killers often kill larger animals, like dogs and cats, and frequently for their solitary enjoyment rather than to impress peers.
Bed wetting beyond the age when children normally grow out of such behavior.

I think we would be utterly amazed at the impact of FASD. Only when society can see how it effects them on a day to day emotional basis, a financial basis, or in a personal way like paralyzing fear, will we truly have an impact on stopping this tragedy.

The greater community has not seen this as the reservations communities has. Bill Lawrence, editor of the Ojibwe News contacted me last year to gather information on FASD, as he saw the growing level of violence on the reservations and was looking for the root cause. His editorials on FASD were revealing, as he did his homework to find out more about the behaviors exhibited by FASD victims. He concluded, as I have, the violence on the reservations are a direct result of the brain damage of FASD. The elders on the reservations sit in fear of their lives while the bullets fly. The gangs own the streets and villages at night. Young kids are drawn or threatened into gangs. FASD kids become the gang enforcers and victims of gang violence, as they will act without caution due to the inability to connect an action to a consequence. Guns have become part of the action. Adrenalin feeds the action. Alcohol, the drug of choice, feed the action. So little attention is paid to the level of violence on the reservations due in part to the reservation's policies of limited or no access to information. The people on the reservations know how much impact FASD has in their lives, but most are unwilling to admit the problem due to the fact they contributed to the problem by drinking during their pregnancy or allowed their partner, daughter, or partner to drink during the pregnancy. The only ones who would talk to me about it were the grandmothers who are taking care of FASD grandchildren because the mothers had discarded the children, were in jail, or had lost custody because of their actions (most of the time because the mothers are FASD). Only once, after I wrote an article about FASD, did an American Indian mother talk to me about her child and the lifelong devastating effect her drinking during the pregnancy had on her child. Through all this, tribal leaders still refuse to see or state the truth. In fact, I have had tribal leaders go after me politically because I dared to state the obvious. I consider their attacks a badge of honor. I can't stand back and see this happening to innocent victims because some political figure wants to hide his head in the sand. We need to have the same aggressiveness when it comes to political actions at the state and federal level.

Reservations are a microcosm of what can happen in our society. Russia and mid-European countries are other windows into FASD impacts in society. Canada is further ahead of the USA in recognizing the impact of FASD. Wake up America. This is real!!!!!!