I heard at conference a few years ago from a lactation consultant working with refugees that breastfed children were less likely to be abandoned. In the archives today I found a posting on this from 1995 on a study in Costa Rica. Does anyone else have such studies? In the UK there are many projects aiming to prevent family breakup, improve parenting etc and in order to appeal to them for support for breastfeeding it would be helpful to have as much on this subject as possible. Susan Stockwell Poole UK _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com *********************************************** 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