La Leche League: A Case Study

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In October of nineteen fifty-six an organization known as the La Leche League was founded in Franklin Park, Illinois. This organization, particularly set in motion a support system for breastfeeding mothers and their children offering resources and outreach programs for all nursing individuals. Today they have been established in sixty-eight countries with the main headquarters still set in Illinois. Le Leche League has many ways you can contact them and access the resources they provide- online access, hospital, medical offices, news papers and word of mouth. When going through the online website of Le Leche -a very user friendly site that offers great amounts of information- in my research on breastfeeding I utilized their category "news" leading me to numerous links to news articles that were in a wide range from laws and ethics to emotional support groups. A couple stood out to me "Mothers Breastfeed in Public to Make a Point" by Jessie Carney, "Breastfeeding in Public may Become Virginia Law "by Laura mock and "Health Department Recognizes World Breastfeeding Week" a article in The Royal Gazette. All of these articles are in …show more content…

Kate Miller-Watson wrote an article that is abundant in material and reasons for, why not to breastfeed in public but also sympathizes with the rights of breastfeeding mothers and offers tips on how to prevent conflict while doing so. Miller-Wattson sources "Debat.com" where there has been a poll done where thirty-four percent of people voted that nursing in public is inappropriate. From this poll she collectively made a list of five arguments on the topic of breastfeeding in public-indecent, dangerous, awkward social interactions, intimate act that has no place in public and public nursing may not be

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