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On 5/4/08, Margo Trueman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I believe that, according to Kathleen Dettweiler's research (I think it's
> her research) the wordwide average age of weaning is quite broad:  2.5 - y
> years of age.   Due to the absolutely ridiculously short maternity leave in
> the US, I would guess that babies are weaned around 3 - 6 months and it
> would be longer in Canada b/c of the 1 year maternity leave that most
> mothers get so I would guess maybe about 1 year in Canada and in the rest of
> the world, probably considerably longer.  This is just my guess - not
> evidence based at all.
>
> Margo
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