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Breast Feeding - Facebook Faux Pas?

Updated 10:30 AM PDT, Sat, Jan 10, 2009

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Kelli Roman breast-feeds her 22-month-old daughter Ivy with her 3-year-old son Abe at her side at her Fallbrook apartment.
North County Times/Bill Wechter

Kelli Roman breast-feeds her 22-month-old daughter Ivy with her 3-year-old son Abe at her side at her Fallbrook apartment.

 

The group ---- titled, "Hey, Facebook, breast-feeding is not obscene!" ---- has attracted international attention, thrusting Roman, a shy stay-at-home mom, onto the front lines of a public debate over modesty and women's rights, according to a published report.

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Kelli Roman with her children Ivy  and Abe

Kelli Roman with her children Ivy and Abe

Facebook has been deleting photos that show too much skin ever since it started, in keeping with the company's terms and conditions regarding modesty.  But the policy has ruffled feathers when applied to images of nursing mothers, the North County Times reported. 

Outraged by the removal of a photo that showed Roman breast-feeding Ivy, 22 months, in summer 2007, she hooked up with other moms whose breast-feeding photos had been flagged, and began the group that today boasts more than 150,000 members, the paper reported.

For the full story read the North County Times article "Young Mom Spurs Facebook Movement Over Breast-feeding."

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  • blancedview Thursday, Jan 29 at 6:46 AM FLAG COMMENT Facebook aren't applhying their policies evenly, let alone fairly, when you see the full nudity they leave up. I have no time for the nipple nazi brigade then.
  • GG Monday, Jan 12 at 8:18 AM FLAG COMMENT To eeeeeew and nipple chewer: you are both disgusting perverts, and obviously have no respect for women. You need to grow up. Everyone please ignore comments made by these poor excuses for human. They are pigs, period.
  • eeeeeew Monday, Jan 12 at 5:41 AM FLAG COMMENT Your poor husband HG, and you probably wonder why he doesnt fonddle you anymore.
  • nipple chewer Monday, Jan 12 at 5:40 AM FLAG COMMENT It is OK to breast feed in public only IF your offering free milk and suckles to EVERYONE.
  • To Malcom Sunday, Jan 11 at 7:40 AM FLAG COMMENT Your comment about Facebook being responsible for discouraging women's decisions to breastfeed holds NO merit in women's attitudes about breastfeeding. The issue HERE is that a 'shy' stay-at-home mom either filmed herself, or allowed herself to be filmed breastfeeding her nearly 2 year old daughter, then gets offended when Facebook pulls the photos from it's site. She doesn't sound very 'shy' to me! Bottome line:Facebook says ... MORE >

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