>Well this shows up some of the cultural differences on Lactnet and those of
>us outside of the US look at this with different eyes. The word that comes
>up in my mind when I think of mothers being forceably separated from their
>little babies because "they knew what they were signing up for" is probably
>too inflamatory to post on Lactnet.
>Karleen Gribble
>Australia
>
>>  Maybe they do. Maybe your law is wrong. I know Lactnet is not a place
>>  for political debate, but I feel this issue has a lot to do with
>>  breastfeeding.
>>  I believe the soldiers who are contemplating getting pregnant know
>>  intellectually they will have to go back to the military after giving
>>  birth, but that is not the same as the reality when it hits you.
>>  Shouldn't American law protect these mothers, and more importantly,
>>  their children, the future of the nation?
>>  --
>>  Heleen Hayes
>  www.xs4all.nl/~hhayes

Heleen's first language is not English, I gather,  and I think you 
have interpreted her incorrectly, Karleen.

I understood her to be saying that these mothers knew 'in their 
heads' what might be happening, but when it became a reality (ie they 
were going to have to leave their babies),  they felt differently; 
there is a case for protecting the mothers of nurslings from being 
expected to serve in the front line, or anywhere they cannot be with 
their babies. She was suggesting that the law could protect these 
mothers and babies by making it illegal for a mother to be forced to 
separate from her nursling.

I don't think Heleen was meaning 'we shouldn't care about them 
because they knew they would be separated'.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc, tutor UK

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