Essay On Breastfeeding In Public

Imagine you're sitting in your favorite restaurant with your family; everybody is enjoying themselves and having small conversation. When the waitress brings your food out, everything is overcooked and not as good as it usually is. Your child loudly announces, "This food is yucky!" The owner of the restaurant overhears and comes over to your table. He tells you that you cannot degrade the restaurant, such as your child did, and kicks your whole family out. You'd feel embarrassed, confused, and angry. He had no right to kick you out; recalling the natural right of freedom of speech! Now, back to the real world. This is relatable to when a mother is kicked out of an establishment for breastfeeding. It is the mother's natural right to feed her
This happens for three different reasons. One being, parents don't want their children to see a mother's breasts, with a baby attached, and have to try to explain the situation. Another reason is some people can't have children of their own, so they complain that seeing another breastfeed is too hard to watch. The most common reason, though, is because breastfeeding in public is what most people define as public nudity. Even though the law clearly defines that breastfeeding is not public nudity, a lot of women are still told to cover up or to leave a business. The fear of being told these things leads women to formula feed instead of breastfeeding. Some women formula feed just because they are afraid of their baby getting hungry in public, and there being no private place to feed them. If this is the only reason a woman is formula feeding, then that shows our failure as a supportive society. Everyone should be supportive of breastfeeding, including in public, because it's better for both the baby and the mother. Not supporting breastfeeding is like people being okay with starving a baby and putting the mother in pain, and all of this just because we think a pair of breasts needs to stay in the