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Mark, I was raised on Dr Spock in the early 50s and was bottle fed by my well educated Mom. It was considered sophisticated or more precisely in the term of the day ‘convenient’. Strangely, with both my parents being artists and kind of early hippies the bottle feeding thing seemed out place. Everything modern and space-age was the fad at the time. Maybe breast feed in zero gravity is too messy?
Jokes aside, social pressure weighs disproportionately on women–especially on the child topic. My older daughter had behavioral difficulties in middle school and her lack of regard for authority (guess where that came from) caused the vice-principal to call my wife frequently. The assumption may have been from a daughter/mother dynamic category in their psychology of troubled children manual but it didn’t fit our family.
Fortunately, my wife is not tolerant of stereotyping and our daughters have turned out strong and maybe a bit dangerous to mess with. Our older daughter breast fed both her kids and they are healthy and very active. This a kind of left-field question but I wonder if breast feeding is a sign of close family bonds? Back to the idea of convenience, I can’t think a more wonderful inconvenience than children.