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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @04:35PM
Agreed. To kinda expand on what you said (or to basically repeat it differently)
When the baby formula is either in powdered form or isolated in the refrigerator it's basically not as susceptible to bacteria.
When it enters the body it warms up. The baby formula is very nutritious, carrying much of the nutrients needed by bacteria to grow. The baby isn't really producing any of its own antibodies so what you basically have are all these nutrients entering the body, warming up to body temperatures, with little immunological protection. You essentially have a breeding ground for bacteria with little protection. Not a good combination.