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Peer reviewedGottwald, Sheryl Ridener; Thurman, S. Kenneth – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1994
This study compared the interactive behavior of 20 cocaine-using mothers and their neonates with a control group of drug-free mothers and newborns. Cocaine-exposed infants were asleep or distressed for significantly longer periods, and cocaine-using mothers spent significantly more time disengaged from, and passively looking at, infants than did…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cocaine, Congenital Impairments, Drug Abuse
