In connection with the very interesting discussion on the effect of bf on
demographics, Kathy Dettwyler wrote that

<< Rather than focus on trying to get people in Third World countries to
limit population size, a more logical approach would be to try to get people
in the US to consume fewer resources, and/or to have fewer children, and to
stop trying to turn
 Third World countries into consumer nations modelled after the West. >>


This certainly seems true to me.

Moreover, I thought that the original poster (sorry, I've deleted your
name...) was talking about whether her own birth-and-bf support in the United
States was going to make the women she personally helped have more or fewer
children.

I think that the default assumption that population control always means
"limiting third world population" is one of our (US and in this case a bunch
of us Lactnet readers) deeply ingrained bad habits -- among other things its
the motive for so many US physicians to not care about the WHO Code, because
they just can't see it as applying to them and their patients -- "oh, that
stuff's about the third world, right?"

Elisheva Urbas
in NYC

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