Breastfeeding and Mother-Infant Separation

"Breastfeeding and Mother-Infant Separation:
Independent Predictors of Child Abuse and Neglect"

Lane Strathearn, MBBS, FRACP
Developmental Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine/
Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX

From abstract: "It is hypothe-sized that, in human mothers, breastfeeding will be associated with a reduced incidence of
child abuse and neglect, whilst prolonged mother-infant separation will increase the risk."

Read more here:
www.aap.org/breastfeeding/2003NCEabstracts.pdf