In 2013, 81.1 percent of U.S. mothers said they started out breast-feeding their baby. That's up from 75 percent in 2008, and 70 percent in 2000, according to the CDC.
[...] 52 percent of U.S. mothers said they were still breast-feeding their infants when the babies were 6 months old, and 30 percent said they were still breast-feeding when the babies reached 1 year.
How should society handle breastfeeding in public and the workplace? Should there be any restrictions on the age of the child?
Breastfeeding has obvious benefits for a child's development, but breast milk is also a fluid of the body that can carry disease.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mum-still-breastfeeds-daughter-aged-4881835
http://www.livescience.com/55846-breast-feeding-mothers-united-states.html
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Wednesday August 24 2016, @03:51PM
1. If you don't like seeing someone breastfeed, look somewhere else.
2. If you don't like other people seeing you breastfeed, go somewhere where you aren't likely to be seen.
It's really not that complicated, unless you're of the puritanical mindset where the sight of a human breast is somehow shocking and scarring.
No, why would there be? Can anyone advocating for such a restriction demonstrate any harm whatsoever to anybody? I mean, I could imagine it becoming at least a bit awkward by somewhere around puberty, but by that point I'd highly doubt either the kids or the mom would want to.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Wednesday August 24 2016, @03:53PM
Oh, and one followup on that is that the modern Religious Right is actually more puritanical about this than the actual Puritans: In the Massachusetts colony, for instance, women would routinely breastfeed in church.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by jdavidb on Wednesday August 24 2016, @06:35PM
Oh, and one followup on that is that the modern Religious Right is actually more puritanical about this than the actual Puritans: In the Massachusetts colony, for instance, women would routinely breastfeed in church.
Women routinely breastfeed in every church I've ever been a part of, and all of them were mostly composed of the Religious Right.
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(Score: 2) by vux984 on Wednesday August 24 2016, @10:22PM
Most that I've seen though used a blanket, and/or went into a formal or informal 'nursery' area; often behind glass where the sermon was miked in over a speaker; so that crying babies etc wouldn't disrupt the whole congregation.
They weren't just sitting there with their shirts wide open and their breasts out in full view in the 3rd pew.
Maybe the churches you were in were quite different...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @10:27PM
> Most that I've seen though used a blanket,
Also known as a booby burka.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Wednesday August 24 2016, @10:56PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @04:53PM
1. If you don't like seeing someone breastfeed, look somewhere else.
And the corollary to this is if you breastfeed in public, don't expect me to avert my gaze.
The issue in my mind isn't what you do, but that you demand special treatment for based upon some nebulous social good (it couldn't possibly that women are self-serving).
Same goes with taking an hour off from work during the busiest times to pump.
My work had to remodel a room at enormous costs so ONE girl could milk herself in private (under threat of lawsuit).
We don't even have sprinkler system in case of fire.