I remember seeing an article about this in the "Compleat Mother" magazine about two years ago.
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"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)
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