Breastfeeding is a natural biological function, but is there a time and a place for it? Nearly 75 percent of American mothers breastfeed their babies, but the issue of nursing in public remains controversial, as it raises the difficult question of how much exposure is too much. Babies get hungry even in public places, so what's a mother to do?
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There is More “Breast” in the Media Than Seen During Breastfeeding.
- From Elizabeth Pantley
By Elizabeth Pantley - Author of 'The No-Cry Sleep Solution'
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Absolutely on the mark! Our society has so closely aligned breasts with toys for men's pleasure that we are no longer comfortable with breasts' most primary purpose: feeding offspring. Every mammal does it. Evolution demands it. The adverse response to public breastfeeding is a complicated and contradictory web of regarding the real purpose of women's breasts. It is a discomfort with sexuality. That society's confusion with its sexuality can take precedent over a child's health and a mother's welbeing is positively medieval. I am outraged!
- jennifer slusser
December 9, 2008 7:38AM
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you are correct about the media but the media is not our public buildings and parks etc...i think breast feeding is fine in public if it is done in a tasteful manner.. most women know how to do it by covering themselves and that is ok but if they make a specticle out of it it is not. I have seen women who breast feed in such a way as not many even know what they are doing...
- cbooh
October 29, 2009 1:42PM
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