I think the women contacting you is confused.  I know of no law anywhere
in the US like that - in fact a standard like that for removal of a
child would in all likelihood be unconstitutional.  Furthermore, I live
in the county next to Lehigh here in Pennsylvania where we don't have
protective legislation (except for a pretty good Philadelphia city
ordinance) but there is no explicitly anti-breastfeeding law either.
 Feel free to give her my e-mail as a breastfeeding lawyer in Montgomery
County.  I would be curious to know where in the world she got the
notion such a law exists.

Jake Marcus
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>Since I am not from the US, I'm asking for a little help here.  I
>have been conversing with a lady from Pennsylvania in Lehigh County,
>who claims the following law in her county:
>
>if a child over 3 years of age is found to be breastfed either in
>public or in the privacy of their home and someone reports it they
>wioll contact children and youth and they will take the child away
>from the parent EXSPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE A NEWBORN .....That
>is when breastfeeding stop for the older.........
>
>As a tandem nurser, I find this 'law', if it is such, obsurd, and I
>just can't see this really being a law.
>
>Does anyone know if there is any such law, and if she is reading it
>wrong, or interpretting it wrong?  Is the US really that anti-
>extended nursing? (is so, thank God I live in Canada)  Where can I
>find a reference to this law for my own viewing?  Is there a place (a
>courthouse maybe) that I can locate online to help me?
>
>any suggestions to cure my curiosity......
>
>TIA
>--
>Pauline M Gabriel                   [log in to unmask]
>

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