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Breastfeeding Rate is Increasing in the US

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 24 2016, @03:12PM   
from the mmmmmmmm-lunch! dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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

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• Re:Control (Score: 3, Interesting) by jdavidb on Wednesday August 24 2016, @07:47PM

  by jdavidb (5690) on Wednesday August 24 2016, @07:47PM (#392742) Homepage Journal

  Should a woman be required to go in a back room? No.

  Of course not, that would be slavery. But dictating that somebody else must allow her to feed her child on his property is also slavery. I oppose slavery, so the only moral choices are those that both she and the property owner are agreed to.

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