Title: Breastfeeding and the Law

Source/Sponsoring Agency: La Leche League; Baldwin, Liz

URL: http://www.lalecheleague.org/Law/LawMain.html

Date Checked: 7/30/2008      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 10/15/2004

Topics: Women and the Law; Family Law

Other keywords: Breastfeeding

Contents: The La Leche League is a nonprofit organization devoted to providing breastfeeding information, education, and support to pregnant women and nursing mothers. To this end, La Leche League International’s website contains a section on “Breastfeeding and the Law,” which offers legal resources for non-professionals covering concerns such as custody and breastfeeding, the legality of extended breastfeeding, and balancing breastfeeding with other life tasks such as work or jury duty. While most of the articles on this site are written as advisory pieces addressing specific circumstances, “Breastfeeding and the Law” also provides a state-by-state summary of legislation pertaining to breastfeeding in the United States. Another section offers advice and direction for activists on how to enact positive breastfeeding legislation. The site also offers a section on “Breastfeeding Legislation in Italy,” in Italian. Each page is date-stamped, so users can easily determine when it was last updated. This site is searchable.

Author of Annotation: B. Kreisler