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The backwards history of attitudes toward public breastfeeding

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imageA detail from Stanisław Wyspiański's "Macierzynstwo" (1905).Wikimedia Commons

Breastfeeding in public is the controversy that never seems to die.

A recent YouTube video that went viral shows a woman breastfeeding in public. One passerby tells her “not to do that in public”; another that being in “a decent place”...

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