City Bans Breast-Feeding Children Older Than 2 in Public

I agree--where is the line people? How about women who show off the skills of a surgeon and silicone? What about guys who play shirts and skins basketball? I mean, geesh. I love all the fuss and storm about "nudity" when it is a such a subjective issue...and this over breastfeeding? What is wrong with this country? We can sell magazines with tooth-floss swimsuits on an annual SI rag in every shopping aisle in this country but some gov't body is BANNING BREASTFEEDING? I wish I was still nursing so I could drive there and breastfeed my kid and DARE them to arrest me. GAH!

Thank you for this law! No one wants to see this in public. Breastfeeding two-year-olds is weird.

Seeing it is is even weirder. It's not analagous to any of the comparisons I've seen commented about here.

I think the analogies are to point out that "offensive" nudity is very subjective and that spending tax payer money and law enforcement to enforce such a ban on breastfeeding a specific aged child is ridiculous. I mean, does a mom need to carry around proof of age for her child to avoid arrest? Should she wear a burka when nursing? And my point is that if we start making laws like this for a nursing mother then why stop there--I don't want to see some tart in a tank top and no bra or a gross guy in a wife beater with his man boobs showing from the sides, but should I lobby for a law and then tax supported law enforcement to waste time finding and charging/arresting the offenders? Come on. You don't want to see? Don't look. If I have to drive by a giant Hooters billboard every day with my kids on the way to elementary school when our country bans breastfeeding then I think I have a right to be a bit ticked.

What stupidity I have to read, no one whips a boob out! You would have to walk over and look straight down to see anything! Please! Its natural, healthy and economical You want to be offended with something look at the males walking around with their pants under their butts! Grown men too! How about the men that walk around with bellies sticking out under their shirts! Lets pass a law on that. Or the cracks your forced to see sitting at these public places. Please!

What a sick ignorant society we live in. Banning a mother from feeding her infant naturally, the way God intended, is the epitome of ignorance. What a crazy society this is when quasi pornographic photos are seen everywhere and where people of all ages walk down the street stuffing their faces with disgusting, greasy processed fast foods. Yet, this society sees fit to ban a mother from feeding her baby in public. Pathetic.

Well said! They are a hell of lot more offensive than a mother nurturing their child.

Not as long as he keeps that illegal, ungegistered pistol out of sight Remember the 2nd Amendment! .We got to keep him from getting upset by the disturbing sight of an exposed breast (remember Janet Jackson and how the world almost came to a complete lack of spin)! And there wasn't even a baby involved there, just a kid named Justin....maybe young enuf to be her child.

The article clearly states "anyone older than two". So mothers still can breast feed their infants in public - just not toddlers. And by two the kids should be learning to use a cup anyway.

Sadly, stupid people can't see past the Western sexualization of breasts to their primary, God-given purpose: Feeding babies. Worst yet, bottle fed babies grow up to be just a wee bit dumber than breastfed.

So as you can see, we find ourselves in a bit of a circular prison here.

Nobody "forces" you to watch them feed their babies. I find, say, a mentally handicapped person who can't feed themselves well far more disturbing to watch eat. But y'know what? They're people -- so I think they should have the right to eat anywhere I'm allowed to eat.

If this city wishes to ban eating in public, that's cool with me. Otherwise, this law is both silly and a little sick.

I find it highly perverted that someone would tell a woman feeding her child is a sexual act. I suggest that anyone who agrees with this twisted view of nature might wish to consider seeking counseling, or some sort of immersion therapy to see if it improves their condition.

And, no, I am not claiming that anything & everything "natural" is, therefore, also find for public display. Sex is natural, but should be private. Defecation is natural, but again, private (and for hygiene purposes, private and somewhere safely distant from others). Death and childbirth are both natural, but both can be scary, so it may be best to keep them somewhat private (or at least keep children and others who may be frightened away if you don't think they can handle it). There are also plenty of unnatural things which can and should be public -- driving a car. Listening to an iPod. Etc.

Breastfeeding is why women have breasts. Lusting after them is why Westerners have hangups.

If only.

A 2 yr old still sucking tit??? Thats ridiculous, the kid should be drinking from a sippy cup at that age not sippy mommy's boobs. Time for the kid to grow up!!!

At 24 months...the child is looking at other womens milk delivery systems...Any child nursing at that age should be doing it in private...It at all

Why do all you people think it is any of YOUR business that a woman chooses to breastfeed her child or for how long!!!!!
Don't you have anything better to do than JUDGE people. It is God's business to judge not ours.

So if you can see the value in nursing a toddler for the pain/trauma of receiving a vaccine, what about a skinned knee at the park? I have nursed all of my children past infancy and they have weaned on their own timeline. I have nursed everywhere and have never had any negative comments come my way. Breastfeeding has life long beneficial effects for both the mother and the child. Our country has horrendous breastfeeding success. Many mothers start but at the 3 month mark, few are continuing to give their baby it's biologically appropriate food. We are so uptight about breasts in this culture. It's mindboggling to me how we use breasts and sexual inuendo to market products yet shun nursing mothers ever chance we get.

wouldnt breastfeeding as a soothing technique teach a child to eat when they are distressed? that sounds like its setting a kid up for a lofetime of emotional eating problems....just wondering

its called a pump