Sunday, July 03, 2005

Family Ties - A mother feeding a baby shouldn’t be a crime

The baby’s crime is being hungry. The mother’s crime is trying to feed her baby. Almost everywhere in the country, it’s called breast-feeding. In Arizona, it’s indecent exposure.

Breast-feeding is the very essence of nurturing motherhood, a biological function with astonishing health benefits to both mother and child. Yet it is a practice so misunderstood and, in some cases, so reviled that it can have mom and her baby banished to the bathroom.



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