TOday in one of my education classes we each were given (randomly) 3 news articles to read and then summarize outloud. One of the articles one student received was on extended breastfeeding and how a 5 yr old was taken from his mother becasue he was still nursing at 5. A few months previously he was taken becasue his babysitter said that the boy had told her that he wanted to stop.
The article was about how he was taken for the second time and placed in foster care but how he was returned to his motehr and that CPS commented on how intelligent and good natured the boy was.
The people in my class rolled their eyes and huffed about how a mother could nurse past infancy and how disgusting it was. I couldn't take it and blurted out that *I* was one of those mothers and to incinuate(sp?) that a mother who nurses past infancy has sexual feelings toward her child is perverse and plan wrong. I talked about CPS's lack of education on the matter and asked why they would take the word of a babysitter who may have coerced the child because of HER discomfort with child lead weaning(they used the term in the article).
When I was done I just shook and people stared at me like I had gone insane(they think I'm a nut for my feminist views anyway- and that homeschooled children test higher than publically schooled children).
I am still shaking and want to cry over the ignorance. The article said it is a rarity that women do "this" and I said, you don't hear about it because of the judgment mothers are placed under and the risk of losing your child.
Mamas, I NEEDED you!
The article was about how he was taken for the second time and placed in foster care but how he was returned to his motehr and that CPS commented on how intelligent and good natured the boy was.
The people in my class rolled their eyes and huffed about how a mother could nurse past infancy and how disgusting it was. I couldn't take it and blurted out that *I* was one of those mothers and to incinuate(sp?) that a mother who nurses past infancy has sexual feelings toward her child is perverse and plan wrong. I talked about CPS's lack of education on the matter and asked why they would take the word of a babysitter who may have coerced the child because of HER discomfort with child lead weaning(they used the term in the article).
When I was done I just shook and people stared at me like I had gone insane(they think I'm a nut for my feminist views anyway- and that homeschooled children test higher than publically schooled children).
I am still shaking and want to cry over the ignorance. The article said it is a rarity that women do "this" and I said, you don't hear about it because of the judgment mothers are placed under and the risk of losing your child.
Mamas, I NEEDED you!
Good job!!!
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