"I'm no fan of J-Lo, but to make statements that people from less than middle class or priviledged backrounds are of course going to bottlefeed is condescending, inaccurate and pathetic."
Oh cool it expat.
I didn't say that wc people are 'of course going to bottlefeed'. Only implied they're more likely to.
And they are and it's a fact that's widely acknowledged by those involved with working on infant feeding health policy who are trying to target groups who traditionally have low rates of breastfeeding.
Sorry.
If you're interested these are the figures from the UK (from the recent Department of Health 5 yearly Infant Feeding Survey)
America has a similar patterns.
"There is a steep social class gradient in breastfeeding initiation, in the UK
rising from 57% of mothers in social class V to 91% of mothers in social
class I. Increases between 1995 and 2000 were higher at the lower end
of the social class scale (from 60% to 63% in manual classes and from
50% to 54% in mothers with no partner or partner?s occupation
unclassified).
? Breastfeeding incidence was related to age of mothers, in the UK rates
ranging from 46% among teenage mothers to 78% of mothers aged 30
or over.
? In the UK, mothers who left full-time education at age 16 or below were
less likely to initiate breastfeeding than those educated longer. Increases
in breastfeeding incidence between 1995 and 2000 were concentrated
among the less well-educated sectors of the population (from 51% to
54% among mothers educated to age 16 or below, unchanged at 88%
among mothers educated to at least age 19)."
The point I made about Jlo's background was valid and was not in the slightest bit judgemental.
She's a working class girl who comes from a community with low breastfeeding rates.
Her cultural heritage is bound to influence her feelings about how she chooses to feed her own babies - however much money she's ammassed in the intervening years.
It's a fair point.