Mary White, one of the founding mothers of LLLI, began a talk at a Wisconsin conference once with, "Breastfeeding is not enough." She went on to talk about all of the knowings and learnings that a human person encounters in her/his young life. She also shared her ideas about how mothers continue to guide their children toward all aspects of humanness. Every daily, hourly interaction of the little human person has an impact on how she sees herself and, consequently, others. The paths to criminality are varied. Of course, a loving mother whose infant is breastfeeding cannot control her child's life experiences (though many of us would like to) nor the way her child will interpret those experiences. But I think that all of us believe that breastfeeding makes some healthy human beginnings more assured. It probably takes a lot of abuses of the heart to create a terriorist or a murderer and some people do live with such abuses daily. I used to tell my LLL groups when discussions drifted to "guarantees of good outcomes" that Atilla the Hun was probably breastfed as were many other people who didn't seem to learn how to be a human being. But feeding at Mother's breast has a good chance of setting a good foundation upon which to build healthy character. We must then remain conscientious about the learnings that our children are internalizing. Pat Gima, IBCLC Milwaukee, Wisconsin Mailto:[log in to unmask] *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html