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    Breastfeeding might be considered the next worst thing you could do after procreation, not realizing it is a natural biological aspect of life. People regard breastfeeding in public as inappropriate and believe that women want to breastfeed in public, so they can exhibit their breasts on purpose. In the video “4 Reasons Women Should NEVER Breastfeed in Public,” Kristina Kuzmic sarcastically talks about the reasons why women should never breastfeed in public. “We’re moms, we don’t

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    Breastfeeding is the oldest style of feeding a baby. It’s existed since the start of time. In fact, out of all the mammals that exist on this planet, each one of them nurses their babies, including humans. Recently, breastfeeding publically has been seen as indecent. Why would society frown on the most natural and beautiful act a mother can do for her child? Nearly daily women are asked to leave public places when they’re feeding their kids because someone believes it 's indecent or perverted, despite

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    cover their breasts in public as a social norm, unless they engaged in a sexual behavior they should not be seen. Even something as natural as breastfeeding is seen as an act of public indecency. However, this is not the case for other cultures around the world. Some of the most modest dressing cultures see breastfeeding as completely natural, while still seeing other parts of the female body as sexual. In this case, why do some cultures sexualize female breasts and breastfeeding, and others do not?

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    Sexism and the Effects of Growing up in a Man’s World W0512971 Southeastern Louisiana University Abstract The purpose of this study is to determine whether sexism has an effect on the lives of women in situations such as breastfeeding their child and whether or not people take offense to the sight of seeing a mother breastfeed her child. I will recruit 100 participants, 50 males, and 50 females, ranging from ages 18 to 50. I will perform my study using an experimental design where

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    When you were a baby how were you fed? Mothers breastfeeding their children is timeless. Well, everyone is entitled to their own opinion most of the time when it comes to breasts, but when it’s breastfeeding everyone in society shuts the door. Breastfeeding is an action done by a mother who is feeding their baby with milk of her own. Breastfeeding is look down upon because of American Culture, it has gone from the main source of food for infants to an uncomfortable, less used practice and basically

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    habits – breastfeeding and menstruation. In your initial discussion post, you stated that you nursed your son until the age of two, while receiving looks of disgrace. While I am not a mother, yet, I can relate to this topic, due to social media. Over the past few months, I witnessed multiple social experiments illustrating how society views a breastfeeding mother compared to a woman dressing scandalous. In complete astonishment, society tended to accept the scandalous women over the breastfeeding mother

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    Breastfeeding is a individual women who chose to feeds their baby with milk from the breast there are several reason why women should breast feed. You create this bond between the mother and the baby. It may lower the risk of the baby having an cold or flu (bump2017). It protects the baby from different types of symptoms. Mothers who breastfeed are likely to have a lower risk of breast cancer. When breastfeeding it higher the child IQ. We are all humans and everyone likes to eat when they're hungry

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    Although breastfeeding has been known to benefit both the mother and the infant, many women still come across many obstacles to breastfeeding, even after a successful beginning. Most families are partial in their beliefs that are influenced by society’s cues (available places to breastfeed in public) and family traditional norms (whether a family has traditionally participated in breastfeeding or formula feeding; and opinions about the preferred feeding choice in that family) around breastfeeding. Many

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    hard to even go out into the city without seeing a scantily clad woman on a billboard. There seems to be no problem with nudity in the public places, and yet if a breastfeeding mother sits down to feed her child, it’s immodest and should be done in a separate room. The controversy surrounding breastfeeding is one consisting of hypocrisy and childishness. Breastfeeding is a natural part of life, and yet women are expected to take their child into the bathroom to feed them even though they would not normally

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    Case study: breastfeeding “Breast feeding rates in developed countries such as the UK, Australia and the US are typically lower than World Health Organisation goals” Parkinson (2010) 3. From a study carried out by Queensland university stressed the importance of not only the delivery of literature on how effective breastfeeding is for your babies health but that what was also needed to increase the number of breast feeders was to give personal support and explains social and environmental benefits

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