Posted on 06/12/2005 5:00:16 AM PDT by Libloather
Unfortunately dumb people DO NOT read pamflets. They need to be shown what to do.
Probably he does.
I know how your mother must of felt. I breastfed my first son, no problems.... With my second son four years later I could not. I tried for three months, I noticed he was not doing well. When I took him to the doctor he said it was my milk... I had to put him on soy formula... Both of my sons now in their twenty's are very healthy.
Something else I should have mentioned -- don't know if it has anything to do with this, but ---
Mom had bouts of anemia. In fact, anemia seems to run in her family. I don't know why -- Mom always ate healthy and she took nutritional supplements, so I don't think it was anything she did or didn't do. And I have the same tendency.
Thank you. :)
Trust me, some believe that women who don't breastfeed their children are lazy (I guess that would include me), without hearing the circumstances of the individual. I am a huge proponent of breastfeeding, but I am not going to call a mother a bad parent if she doesn't breastfeed. FWIW, my three little ones are completely healthy, active, and bright children, and they were mainly formula fed.
Your mom sounds like she did the right thing :)
Yes, and the cost is the only argument for the individuals for whom the parent/child relationship has no inherent value.
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And thank you too. :)
My mom was the kind who, when she had a problem, she went to extraordinary lengths to try to solve it. She didn't give up after one feeble, half-hearted attempt. She was by no means lazy. I do remember that she said she was made to feel like a bad parent when she tried to breastfeed and couldn't, and I think she may have carried some guilt around with her for a long time afterwards. That was, in my view, entirely unfair.
Where do you live that you can get name brand beans and corn that cheap?
Should have known...from France!
There are no such thing as food stamps anymore. When welfare was reformed during the Clinton administration one of the things changed was the food stamp program.
You see, it is degrading for a poor person to be forced to present food stamps in front of other cash-paying customers! So what did the government do? It replaced food stamps with an ATM card. This ATM card can be used in certain locations to withdraw real, green, American cash.
So what do these people do? They withdraw cash and spend the money on drugs, booze, whatever and hit up the food banks for staples. I knew a young woman who regularly spent her "food-stamp" cash on crack and expected her parents to feed her two children (which they gladly did).
I imagine many of these undernourished kids in Baltimore are seeing their food stamp money spent elsewhere.
I am not. BTW, if I had a cat I would not feed him with the canned cat "food".
Guess who was a prime mover of the elimination of the "degrading" food stamps in favor of the ATM card?
John McCain!
"I always tell the hand wringers that there is NO poverty in this country - except by choice. If children are going hungry, then the parents are not working or availing themselves of federal programs. In either case, the children should be put into state care becuase the parents are unfit morons."
"Are there no Prisons? Are there no work houses? Those who are badly off should go there, and those that had be like to die, let them do it, and decrease the surplus population..."
The USDA sponsors the Child Nutrition Program, The Child and Adult Care Food Program and the Summer Food Service Program. http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/About/AboutCNP.htm Every child in America that is hungry is eligible to receive food.
>A. Pole, I don't think they were saying canned food was equal to fresh. The article said there was no canned food or that it was overpriced. I'm sure eveyrone knows canned food is not the same as fresh.<
Take note that nowhere in the article does this dishonest shill of a writer mention the availability of frozen vegetables in this country.
The writer harps on the problem of underweight babies. There are plenty of food programs in this country to supply formula and jarred baby food.
However, the parent must make some sort of effort to obtain the help, then must make an effort to see the child is regularly fed.
What does the author expect President Bush to do? Go to the homes of these irresponsible, ignorant people and stand over them to make sure they care for their children?
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