Because they breast-feed their children fully under unhygienic conditions, their children tend to enjoy the benefits of full breast-feeding more.
The women breast-fed their children for about 2 years, and it was considered very unusual indeed if a woman did not breast-feed at all.
The woman whose menses began at 4 months did not breast-feed her child.
For example, it might be suggested that women's ability to breast-feed declined with age.
Yet one of the main points in the latter part of the discussion is why women lose the ability to breast-feed or experience difficulties with it.
I cannot bear or breast-feed a child.
As for breast-feeding, women with maternity leave lasting 18 weeks would have sufficient time to breast-feed their children, without having to adjust their working hours.
Is it not strange, therefore, that so few women apparently choose to breast-feed?