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, @05:33PM
In practice, the mother's body can take amino acids, vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats, sugars, etc from wide array of different foods and dietary preferences and reassemble them into a chemical arrangement that's been proven (in most cases*) to be better for the baby, and perhaps most importantly her baby, than something that came from a factory that assumes that humans are similarly made in factories.
But, I mean, in theory, there is no difference between practice and theory.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 24 2016, @05:36PM
* Don't want to leave anybody hanging waiting for the footnote, was going to be a snarky comment about Flint, MI. I see I forgot to remove the star after removing the snarky comment.