Topic : 10/07 The Latest Debates

You are so very right about it being 'ladylike'.  As a mother who breastfed both her children, when necessary, I did so in public but discreetly.   

By the amount of debate on this subject, plenty of people find it uncomfortable seeing a woman breastfeeding in public.  A little common courtesy both ways avoids anxiety and confrontations.   

This applies to many situations in life.  Love and respect for each other results in better relationships all round. 

As far as handing out condoms in school, I think that should be handled by the parents.  Schools have no business dealing with this.  Schools are in the business to teach our young people "Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, etc. etc."  Otherwise, that would be like our Public Schools telling our students what religion they should practice.  As far as Tracey goes:  Tracey, EVERYONE isn't as STUPID as you were.  I don't care if you came from a conservative family and went to church, if you can't keep your mouth shut when someone else is talking, you better believe that you are not hearing, or at least understanding, what the other person is trying to say.  I thought that you were very rude to the other person on the show by not showing her respect and actually LISTENING to what she was saying.  You were too busy flapping your jaws the whole time. 

On the subject of discipline, no, I do not believe that just any bystander has the right to interfere with parents and their children.  However, if a child is in a store or other public establishment, and the parents are blind to the fact that their child is freely playing with merchandise that is for sale to the general public, (such as tearing up packaging or putting things in their mouth), then I believe that it is the duty of the store employee to take matters into their own hands and hopefully enlighten the parent that they need to take responsibility of controlling their child in a public place. 

As far as breastfeeding in public, I think there is a time and place for everything, and openly breastfeeding in public in vulgar.  I breastfed my son for a year and he didn't starve to death because I didn't pop it out wherever or whenever I pleased. 

First of all breastfeeding will not kill you!! It actually sustains life. I am an occational smoker, but I don't smoke around non-smokers (especially children!!) out of respect for them. Please don't compare smoking to breastfeeding. They are on totaly different ends of the spectrum.