Bonding.

August 1 marks the beginning of World Breastfeeding Week ... so ...women may soon be able to bare their breasts publicly with impunity as long as there is an 'age-based' criterion?? Ican recall a notable criminal case in NZ where the children were reputedly breastfed until the age of thirteen and know of numerous five year olds and older where this has occurred ... no age-based' criteria Steve?

Steve Chadwick says if her member's bill is passed discrimination against breastfeeding mothers will be a thing of the past. From what I have seen, if this process is carried out discreetly there has never been a problem ... not so for those more brazen and exhibitionistic in their actions though and probably rightly so. Breasts are just a body part like ankles and legs and neck and back and cheeks: your whole body enjoys those intimate moments between husband and wife, but that does not mean that the mere act of seeing ankles, legs, necks, backs, toes, etc. should inspire you sexually ... yep and lots of others have used the same argument but not very successfully ... "please your honour, I was only urinating and shaking off the last drops."

Yep, just a body part (breasts) ... but a body part that has aesthetically pleasing qualities and historical fetishistic meaning for a large portion of the population and these are as much biological function as having little or larger suckers hanging off them.

But also ...
A bill that would allow women inmates to look after their babies in prison for two years won support today from two government agencies because it would allow mothers to keep breastfeeding their babies and encourage stronger bonding.
Parliament's law and order select committee today heard more evidence on Green MP Sue Bradford's bill, the Corrections (Mothers with Babies) Amendment.

Once again you have to admire Ms Bradfords logic, lock 'em up for offending, enable ongoing contact to encourage stronger bonding and reduce the separation from them as a deterrent to offending and take them off them at the age of two when they have learned quite a few behaviours from their incarcerated mum and all this at a time when removal will have a considerably greater emotional impact on them ... not that I ascribe to this 'new age' notion of attachment disorder but one would have to imagine that separation at the age of two would make this detachment more manifest than no contact at all.

Once again Ms Bradford shows that the welfare of children is not her aim, the reduction of criminal offending is not her aim ... it really just seems she is an intellectual lightweight who has become a pawn of the UN.