Argument Against Breastfeeding

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Many people disagree with the fact that some women choose to breastfeed their baby whenever the baby demands, and wherever. This could be a restaurant, the park, a mall, the workplace. Anywhere and anywhere is a place the baby can feed at. Some may see this as a sexual act, and become uncomfortable around the woman doing so. While others just see it as something private and intimate that does not need to be shared with the world.
One woman states that “What I and many others don’t want to see is the ACTION of breast feeding. It’s an intimate act. NOT sexual, intimate – a very deep form of connection between two human beings.” (The Case Against Breastfeeding in Public from GoFatherhood® https://gofatherhood.com/2012/08/the-case-argument-against-breastfeeding-public/) And that when she sees women breastfeeding, she …show more content…

While there is the fact that many people are uncomfortable, or even disgusted, by women breastfeeding their young children. This may be due to cultural standards, difficult situations regarding a mother feeding her baby at an inopportune time, or with little regard for people around her, or simple opinion on how others should care for their children based on their own experience. And, yes, everyone is entitled to their opinion, most of the mothers in the world will not stop feeding their baby naturally based on the opinion of a stranger in a public