I remember seeing an article about this in the "Compleat Mother" magazine about two years ago. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` Melissa Wolfersberger LD, CPD, CLE/Trainer, LLL Leader ~CAPPA SE Regional Rep ~www.mothersupport.net "Support for the Art of Mothering" "Berkeley, Libby" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I'd like to post this question to any of you who are academicians, familiar >with the bf lit. I was approached by a pediatric nurse practitioner whose >specialty is abuse cases. Having been in the field for decades now, she >said she realized that she has noticed that there are fewer cases of abuse >among families who have breastfed their babies. She approached me to help >design a study to look at pediatric records (which she has access to) and >cross reference them with records from CPS in order to prove or disprove the >correlation. We partnered with several other people and my job was to begin >the literature search. The search turned up only a handful of studies with >the keywords "abuse" "neglect" and "breastfeeding" and they were entirely >discussions of women who THEMSELVES had been abused (and their response to >later breastfeeding their own babies). > >My question is--do any of you out there know of any studies which have >looked at this before? Do you have any suggestions for the study or for the >literature search which might be helpful to us? > >Thanks in advance for any suggestions or references; >libby Berkeley, IBCLC, in El Paso (staring at Mexico as we speak) > > *********************************************** >The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned >LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) >mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: >http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html > -- Melissa Wolfersberger LD, CPD, CLE/Trainer, LLL Leader ~CAPPA SE Regional Rep ~www.mothersupport.net "Support for the Art of Mothering" __________________________________________________________________ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html