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Kathy Dettwyler <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 15 Mar 1999 20:10:05 -0600
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Did anyone else notice in their US newspaper yesterday or today the report
of a study by a group of medical researchers (one was from Emory), showing
that prenatal smoking by the mother was highly correlated with later violent
criminal behavior in the sons????!!!!

Anyone think that those researchers hesitated for a *minute* to publish and
publicize their findings for worry that they might make women feel guilty
for smoking while they were pregnant????!!!!

It is *only* breastfeeding that gets the "we must walk on eggshells in order
to not make mothers feel guilty" treatment by health care professionals.


Katherine A. Dettwyler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Nutrition
Texas A&M University
Author of "Promoting Breastfeeding, Promoting Guilt?"

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