Breastfeeding Doll Stirs Debate

ABC News ^ | 3/31/11 | Staff

[MissTed]

"Their faces of happiness said it all."

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I’m confused... they react to the doll like it is their sister? They are teaching little girls to breastfeed their sisters?

[TSgt]

Breastfeeding indicates sexual maturity which these girls are obviously not. Terrible idea.

[DocRock]

If it looks like the Durka Durka puppets I’m sure the EU would be fine with this.

[Vaquero]

Hulk Melon Baller en español(for some reason)

[edpc]

teaching young girls too soon about a natural part of motherhood

Absolutely. But why stop with the simulation? Chap up their skin and give that doll a couple teeth. Show 'em what it's really like.

/s

[svcw]

This is stupid. Any girl that has younger siblings that were breast feed will already hold their dolls to their chest and pretend they are breast feeding.

[Jeff Winston]

Having and caring for a baby indicates sexual maturity, too.

So are you proposing dolls for little girls are a bad thing?

[Jeff Winston]

This is stupid. Any girl that has younger siblings that were breast fed will already hold their dolls to their chest and pretend they are breast feeding.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner.

[KittenClaws]

I agree this is a terrible idea.

I have observed the child of a friend imitate her mother breastfeeding a newborn sibling with her baby doll.

She threw a blanket over her shoulder and held the baby doll close to her underneath it. Due to her mothers discretion, she had no idea what she was imitating - she was just “playing mommy”. It was sweet and innocent.

This “imitation” goes too far - it removes innocence. It is not necessary. I am appalled.

[LibsRJerks]

Oversexualizing young girls? Ever taken a look at those Brat dolls?

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[Responsibility2nd]

I want one of these dolls. I do. I want to take it into a restaurant and watch the anti-lactates heads explode!

Only problem is... my daughter is 18. Maybe I can find a friend with a young daughter.

[kalee]

Exactly.

[WellyP]

Chap up their skin...

Use Bag Balm!

[Retired Greyhound]

This doll will go great with their Abercrombie & Fitch tween push up bra.

[Twinkie]

Bottom line here in this case is $$$$$$$$$.

[TSgt]

Having and caring for a baby indicates sexual maturity, too. So are you proposing dolls for little girls are a bad thing?

Hell, by your standards they should create a strap-on uterus complete with vagina so they can simulate giving birth!

You obviously don't get it.

[samiam1972]

My little girl already pretends to nurse her baby dolls. I’m not going to buy a special doll that imitates what her imagination is already doing. We also don’t make a big deal out of it. She’ll stop when she gets older.

[Former Fetus]

This article contains a link to a video of a little girl "breastfeeding" her doll. I think it comes up as a sweet, innocent girl playing mom to her doll. I don't understand the controversy. I grew up in Spain, of all places, and watched my mom, aunts... breastfeed their babies. I don't remember if I ever played "breastfeeding" but it would not surprise me one bit. These were the good old days when bottles were the exception and virtually all newborns enjoyed the benefits of breastfeeding.