It's not the Human Rights of the mother ... it's the Human Rights of the
Child. The baby has not signed papers giving away the right to a
mother's breast.
Society needs to change in order to put the needs of the newborn
citizen, first. When it does that, it will be a saner, healthier, and
wealthier society. So much waste, in not attending to the basic primal
needs of the mammalian young: the cost high in terms of a lifetime of
insecurity and health issues.
Better to protect the baby, and work the society around that essential
need, as opposed to centre it around the need to "get on with things".
The entire concept of the mother being free to give freely to the needs
of a mammalian newborn in microcosm, and macrocosm. In the domestic,
the freedom to ignore the housework and sit with the baby, and in the
macro, the freedom to contribute to the outside world, in a meaningful
way _with_ the baby.
So many people are reacting to this, as the concept that in order to
free yourself from sexual discrimination, you must free yourself from
your essential biology and act as if you are a single male at work... is
a feminist approach we've seen cause more problems, and make babies even
less of a priority than they were.
Yes, we need to work on a better system universally, whilst allowing
local independence and diversity. No, we do not need to accept that the
way forward, is to deny the essential need of the baby, to be with its
mother. We can work on ways to ameliorate than when it is presently
unavoidable. But many of us feel that it should never be suggested that
it is DESIRED that the separation is an advancement. Or acceptable. It
is unacceptable. However, if it's all you've got to work with, you have
to do so. But that's not the same as saying it's acceptable, or
appropriate. It is important to say it is unacceptable, even if it is
unavoidable.
:-)
Morgan Gallagher
Margo Trueman wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance, but can it be considered a human rights issue when the mother reenlisted knowing she was due for drill or slated for deployment after her baby reaches the 6 month age mark?
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