Facing falling rates of women who even attempt to nurse their newborns, local officials in Liverpool, England, are launching an educational program
to introduce students, some as young as five years old, to the idea of
breastfeeding. Early lessons would use diagrams and include the
material in "general discussions about growing up," while students in
high school would be visited by actual nursing mothers. Boys will be
part of the curriculum because school officials acknowlege that male
opposition is a factor in women's rejection of breastfeeding.
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