Cindy wrote about

> Study Shows That Race Affects the Breastfeeding Decision
>
Actually, it seems that this study shows something quite different:

> "white mothers were more likely to have characteristics associated with =
> the decision to breastfeed -- higher income and education, marriage, =
> living in the West, and wanting their [child's] birth -- than were their
> black counterparts."
>
The title suggests that race is the determining factor, but this
paragraph and the other findings show that it is not because black women
are black women that they don`t breastfeed.

> The authors recommend that health care =
> professionals emphasize the benefits of breastfeeding to the black =
> community.
>
I think the point is that hcps can`t really do this properly... they
can`t solve the problem of poverty, which, if you look at the other
data, underlies many of the other problems.
Jo-Anne

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