I completely agree, Jennifer. What's more, these teenagers, and others who
go through programs where they take care of 5 pound sacks of flour as
parenthood training are learning so much more than just wait to have
children--they are learning that children are bothersome and tie you down
and that the primary needs of a baby are physical. And so in 10 years we
will see the next generation of mothers who don't want to breastfeed
because it ties them down, or breastfeed with the understanding that it is
only for nutrition, with all of the resulting problems we see from that
view.

Michele Call


Jennifer Tow wrote:

>>Of course, none of these people, including the "expert" psychologist on
staff,
considers in any way that women who had actually been pregnant and given
birth to
babies would be in a completely different hormonal state of readiness
and--one
hopes--attachment than these teens. Of course, that didn't seem to keep
the real
mothers from seeing their children as objects who might nicely serve the
"needs" of
viewers in search of ever-stupider reality tv.

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