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Originally Posted by mikester
If I'm silly for supporting breast feeding then you're the inquisition.
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You're not silly for supporting anything, but your diatribe was over the top. Let it go.
I think breast feeding comes and goes. My generation probably was switched to formula by the time we got home from the hospital (in those days it was 3 or more days). It also was an economic thing back then where some poorer folks didn't have much choice. If they did, they bought formula. The formula manufacturers did a good job of marketing their product pushing it on TV and to the medical profession.
The hippy era brought back more awareness for breast feeding. The boomers started challenging any and every American institution. They wanted to have all clothing made from hemp fiber and began the whole organic deal in a broader sense.
Of course a few were also feeding their children 2nd hand drugs. After that came the more health conscious generation X. And so on and so on.