Breast-Feeding Won’t Make Your Children Smarter
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July 3 (Bloomberg) -- Advocates of so-called attachmentparenting take an all-encompassing approach: assiduous attentionto a child’s every need, including prolonged breast-feeding. Butthose who claim that these practices benefit children’sintelligence miss an important point.
A child’s biggest advantage arises from having the familyresources that make such care giving possible in the firstplace. In this sense, attachment parenting is a trend amongfamilies whose children need it least -- the affluent.Fortunately, there is a way for parents of lesser means to getsimilar benefits.