Against

• Evidence 1:

  • UNICEF found that breastfeeding rates across UK are very low, around 1% to recommended age of 6 months
  • THEREFORE: Highlights questionable factor of whether mothers need to be the primary caregiver
• Evidence 2:

  • Food does not equal love
  • Harry Harlow, monkeys preferred mothers love to cupboard love
  • Demonstrating food does not create an emotional bond
• Evidence 3:

  • Schaffer and Emerson found that mothers feeding was not necessary for emotional support but children form attachments
• Evidence 4:

  • Ethically:
  • Puts pressure on mother to breastfeed in terms of psychological harm, risk to stress and humiliation if unable to breastfeed