Topic : 10/07 The Latest Debates

My opinion about breastfeeding in public is that it should not be done out of respect of other's discomfort about it.  Places these days are starting to put family rooms and other areas that are accessible to breast feeding mothers that allow them to feed their child in privacy.  I feel that women who breastfeed their child in public, are disrespectful. I understand that their child has to eat but mothers can be more discreet about how they do it. I just don't think it is appropriate. 

My opinion about condoms in school is that I think it is a great idea.  I can understand how people may think that it will encourage kids to have sex, but the kids that are taking the condoms were already thinking about sex in the first place and now they can do it and be protected. 

I don't believe in public, unshielded breastfeeding.  A mother who breastfeeds her child in public has choices about where and when she feeds her baby.  The people who surround her when she unexpectedly begins to breastfeed have their choices taken away about whether or not they wish to see a breastfeeding woman.  This leaves the breastfeeding woman as the only person in the situation with a choice. 

Miss Dolly, 

Babies are unpredictable.  Sometimes they get hungry every 2 hours, sometimes not.  SO it is not possible to predict when they will get hungry again.  What do you mean why run to walmart?  Nursing parents do have errands to run besides taking care of their child.  I mean they want a breath of fresh air and want their child to get some too.  If a man oggles and gets aroused by a woman as she breastfeeds, he needs professinal help. 

Amy 

If I am in a restaurant and the person at the next table is chewing in a manner that I find offensive and they are ruining my meal because of the way they are eating, I should be able to tell them to go to the bathroom with their meal?   or...  If I am at a restaurant eating and the person at the next table continuously blows their nose I should ask them to please go to the bathroom when they have that need?  I am the mother to three very healthy children, all breastfed for 12months, 22 months and 16 months.  Breast feeding is natural, what makes it unnatural are the people who think that breast are sex objects, they were created as a natural way to give sustenance to our offspring before MAN made them into SEX objects.  I am always amazed at the people who think of them as SEX objects first and the woman on the show today who was anti-breastfeeding could never give Dr. Phil an answer as to why she found breastfeeding offensive. 

theKSCmom