Malmstrom P E, Faherty T, Wagner P
Twinline, Berkeley, California.
Acta Genet Med Gemellol (Roma). 1988;37(2):193-8. doi: 10.1017/s0001566000004128.
Parents of multiples suffer unique stresses which can severely impair family health and welfare. Access to information, counseling, and community resources increase parents' abilities to cope, and reduce the risk of child and spousal abuse. Twinline, a social service agency in California, provides a variety of free and low-cost nonmedical perinatal services to meet the needs of a heterogeneous population of over 1,000 multiple birth families and parents expecting multiples in the urban and rural counties of the San Francisco Bay Area.
多胞胎父母承受着独特的压力，这些压力会严重损害家庭健康和幸福。获取信息、咨询服务和社区资源能增强父母的应对能力，并降低虐待儿童和配偶的风险。加利福尼亚州的一家社会服务机构“双线”，提供各种免费和低成本的围产期非医疗服务，以满足旧金山湾区城乡各县1000多个多胞胎家庭和怀有多胞胎的父母这一异质群体的需求。
