L Acheson, Family Violence and Breast-feeding.  Arch Fam Med 1995;
4:650-652.
"The author comments that while this association was anecdotal only "...the
38-fold difference in frequency of identified domestic violence and child
sexual molestation between the group that successfully breastfed and the
group that did not is striking enough to warrent further investigation.

Plausible psychophysiologic mechanisms can be adduced to account for the
failure of lactation in a setting of severe physchological stress or abuse."

Please re-read the last sentence.  Does this mean that breastfeeding
resulted in less domestic violence?  Or, does it mean that in families where
there is abuse, successful breastfeeding does not occur because of the
stresses of the abuse?

Barb Berges BS, RN, IBCLC
Rochester, New York

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