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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: 2) by Hyperturtle on Wednesday August 24 2016, @06:05PM
Without commenting on the topic of the submission, I have tried to directly bias a few of my submissions by providing for and against detail (or maybe if I didn't... I thought I did).
Were I to have submitted this, I too would have tried to present a pro and a con.
I think you have projected something into what the submitter wrote, but then again, I can just as easily be subjecting your comments to such a lack of objectivity.
Unless the submitter is favored by all, we are damned if we do and damned if we don't. If we introduce something that we portray as negative, someone will not like what we said because clearly we're mistaken. If we introduce something as positive, the naysayers will crawl out of the woodwork and identify the many ways we are beholden to propaganda or mental disease.
And I consider it to be good that there are these differences that we can openly discuss--if I wanted an echo chamber, I'd not write here. (I have some semi-fans that help keep my rants in check!)
Overall, though -- the AC might not have anything wrong with them. I do not disapprove of the approach used, and I am not even clear on what people would complain about, so to read that some people may be afraid of spreading disease that way -- thats news to me that someone can even fear that. I'm more concerned about the noise made by babies in public, because I am a jerk like that and don't like it when babies end up in places they normally wouldn't be unless someone deliberately carried one there.
When reading these things from an AC, you have to consider that you do not know their gender, age, or political persuasion -- or what their parents or school or church or what have you had taught them as obscene--and it certainly wasn't written like a troll. They're contributing! And they did it anonymously--perhaps with good reason.
I think the AC was trying to solicit conversation, and you dropped the F-bomb in a response accusing them of being nutty. At least play with your prey before doing that; and better yet, don't go all angry on a submission that you highly agree is worth discussing. I get the idea that you don't want to hear the negatives that others may bring about, though...