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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: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Wednesday August 24 2016, @03:33PM
Actually, the introduction of formula goes back much longer than that, shortly after the introduction of the rubber nipple that's now ubiquitous on baby bottles. But a real big push came in the late 1950's when several major formula manufacturers started pulling what amounted to a "first hit is free" marketing campaign starting right in the hospitals.
The 1970's are when the hippies and feminists started really countering that rhetoric, although they certainly had their share of BS about it too, but the end result is that it's become more popular again. Which is good, because by all available measures breast milk is the healthiest food for an infant, provided the woman providing the milk is healthy.
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