Public Breastfeeding Controversy in America
Even though breastfeeding is a natural act almost half of the public feel uncomfortable and even disgust when a mother is breastfeeding her child at public(Breastfeeding Controversy,.n.d.). The morals and ideas of the people about what is appropriate and offensive. People forget that parts of the body are not always sexual, but is still believed they are even when biologically they are not. America has been desensitized towards sex and violence in television and movies, but breastfeeding is still an act of nourishment for a child is seen as obnoxious, when it should be seen as something natural for the people. America religious and cultural legacy has sexualized the wholesome and natural act of breastfeeding,
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According to Smith (p. 1), this generation bottle fed their babies with formula and it is like they never have seen a woman breastfeed their child. One of the reasons most people had a degree of shock or even disgust is that most of the people are used to know that this act is something private and to make it a bathroom. Most women in the United States are aware that breastfeeding is the best source of nutrition for more of the infants, but it is more “normal” to feed the baby with bottles and formula. Not only has society had a negative attitude about a mother breastfeeding, it can be seen by family and friends that have poor information about the benefits of breastfeeding. These negative attitude had made the mother embarrass and even afraid to breastfeed their child in public even when the baby is in need of food. The mother can find herself excluded from social interaction when they are breastfeeding because some people in the same room are disgusted. This had made a mother to conceal breastfeeding and have difficulty to find a place accessible to breastfeed (Barriers to Breastfeeding in the United States,