Breastfeeding?

            The campaign of promoting breastfeeding became a lot more complicated than the Department of Health and Human Services had probably anticipated. Their portrayal of the negative effects of not breastfeeding a child had originally been considered a good idea until they were confronted by the formula industry, who claimed that their ads were guilt-based and unethical. The advertisements were later changed to contain less aggressive images that approached mothers in a different way.

            The health of a child will always be a concern and if breast feeding helps prevent some of the bad things, then I think that there should always be advertisements for it. But I’m not sure that using all the ways things could go wrong if mothers don’t breast feed is the right way to approach it. As the article said, there are a lot of legitimate reasons that mothers don’t breastfeed. So, I think that simply ensuring mothers are aware of the pros and cons of breastfeeding is the way to go.