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To: chance33_98; 2sheep; Thinkin' Gal; f.Christian
This is more common in other countries. My friend's grandfather was weaned at age 7 in Mexico. I was in rural areas of Colombia and Mexico where women openly breastfeed and men are respectful enough not to look. Here they sometimes call the cops on breastfeeding women. In Japan and other countries, children sleep with the mother until 5 or older I believe. But in the US where society and parents SEXUALIZE EVERYTHING, ESPECIALLY THEIR CHILDREN, and dress babies like hookers, the State confiscates children for parenting outside of the Department of Socialist Services Instruction Book. Not long ago, they confiscated a 5 year old child because he still slept in the bed with mom. I think they gave him back when she agreed to let social services visit her house for the rest of her life and interrogate her child to make sure she wasn't in the same bed with him.

But if you're a sexual pervert Boy Scout leader or teacher, male or female, and preying on children, then you have rights.

She is very naive if she thinks that she is going to prevail. She better apply for Swedish citizenship fast and vote with her feet, or be prepared to have her child confiscated and given to some homosexual or lesbian couple. After all, they usually don't have lactating breasts.

Now when her kid goes to a public school and plugs into the school library's ask-alice-anything-about-sex-site and gets images of women having sex with monkeys and horses, she doesn't have to worry because American academia says that it will have no ill effects on his sexual development.

184 posted on 07/10/2002 8:50:31 AM PDT by Prodigal Daughter
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To: Prodigal Daughter
"You don't nurse your child for yourself when that's something they are needing for comfort. When you do that, you're putting your child first."

PC madness?

188 posted on 07/10/2002 9:02:46 AM PDT by f.Christian
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To: Prodigal Daughter
Yes in this country we 'strain at gnats but swallow camels.'
251 posted on 07/11/2002 10:40:51 AM PDT by Terriergal
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To: Prodigal Daughter
children sleep with the mother until 5 or older I believe. But in the US

This brings up the argument of culture. While it may be OK to breastfeed longer in other countries, subjecting a child to that cultural pressure/stigma is unfair.

I wouldn't think that a topless native girl from tribal Africa was immodest because it is their culture to dress that way, but the same woman parading down main street would come off to me here as immodest. There is some value to "When in Rome do as the Romans do." At the same time I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing the African girl's native dress, as a visitor to that area. One tries - or should try-- to err on the side of caution or modesty when it comes to cultural issues. When I breastfed my children my husband's family was a little embarrassed about it, so I picked up on that, and didn't force them to tolerate me sitting in the middle of their living room. I went into a private area, respectful of their discomfort. Now this woman, I know, probably nurses this child privately, however the story is out, she has to understand how the conflict about it is going to get to her son.

252 posted on 07/11/2002 10:46:55 AM PDT by Terriergal
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