I heard an interesting presentation on how the idea of milk kinship was improving adoption rates in Islamic countries. Women would not be able to adopt children, because they would not be able to be unchaperoned around them as they grew if they were boys, and if they were girls, they would not be able to be around their brothers. Introducing the concept of adoptive breastfeeding allowed children to be adopted, because they were then legally milk children/siblings, and would be in normal familial relationship with the rest of the family members. My apologies to the person who gave the lecture, I can't remember who it was and don't have time to look it up. Catherine Watson Genna, IBCLC NYC *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html