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Surprising findings from a global breastfeeding survey
http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2014/09/17/surprising-findings-from-a-global-breastfeeding-survey/Americans say breastfeeding is natural. The French find it embarrassing. The Chinese think it’s unavoidable and a significant number of Turks say nursing is wrong.
The results of the 2014 Lansinoh Global Breastfeeding Survey show the cultural attitudes toward breastfeeding around the world. Here’s a look at the most interesting findings the survey revealed around specific nursing issues and topics:
Breastfeeding in public: The majority of women in most countries find it perfectly natural or unavoidable, and the largest percentage of moms who say it’s wrong were from Turkey (20 percent). The question was most polarizing in China and France. While 52 percent of Chinese women say it’s either natural or unavoidable, 47 percent describe it as embarrassing. Fifty percent of French women say public breastfeeding is perfectly natural/unavoidable, but 41 percent find it embarrassing....
If you take a look at France’s breastfeeding rates, the embarrassment issue begins to make sense. Their numbers are among the lowest in the world because, as one London Guardian reporter puts it, in France, “breastfeeding is regarded as something akin to drinking your own urine” and “your breasts are for your husband, not your baby.” These French women aren’t embarrassed to show their breasts, they’re ashamed to be nursing because nobody else is doing it.
The results of the 2014 Lansinoh Global Breastfeeding Survey show the cultural attitudes toward breastfeeding around the world. Here’s a look at the most interesting findings the survey revealed around specific nursing issues and topics:
Breastfeeding in public: The majority of women in most countries find it perfectly natural or unavoidable, and the largest percentage of moms who say it’s wrong were from Turkey (20 percent). The question was most polarizing in China and France. While 52 percent of Chinese women say it’s either natural or unavoidable, 47 percent describe it as embarrassing. Fifty percent of French women say public breastfeeding is perfectly natural/unavoidable, but 41 percent find it embarrassing....
If you take a look at France’s breastfeeding rates, the embarrassment issue begins to make sense. Their numbers are among the lowest in the world because, as one London Guardian reporter puts it, in France, “breastfeeding is regarded as something akin to drinking your own urine” and “your breasts are for your husband, not your baby.” These French women aren’t embarrassed to show their breasts, they’re ashamed to be nursing because nobody else is doing it.
There must be a lot of French and Turkish folks around here.
