A government survey found that only about 30 percent of new moms are feeding their babies breast milk alone three months after birth. At six months, only 11 percent are breast-feeding exclusively.
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The CDC study found that rates of exclusive breast-feeding were lowest among black women and among those who are unmarried, poor, rural, younger than 20, and have a high school education or less. Those findings are consistent with earlier studies.
This year, the government announced goals for 2010: getting 60 percent of women to breast-feed exclusively for the first three months and 25 percent through six months.
I don't understand why this is even a topic of conversation or why "goals" have to be set to increase the number of breast-feeding women.
Whether you like it or not, women have breasts for one thing: to feed their offspring. That's it.
I'm sorry, but women do not have breasts for a man's (or woman's) sexual pleasure. That is just a side benefit.
The human species, as ugly as it is sometimes, only survived because our ancestors breast-fed. It's amazing we're still around.
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