Study Shows Benefits of BreastFeeding as Popularity Continues to Rise
Word that a new study has found that children who were breast-fed for longer ended up smarter and richer will be welcome among one group of mothers in particular, those who practice the "attachment parenting" style that supports a longer-than-average time before weaning. The study looked at babies who were breast-fed for at least a year, versus those who did for less than a month some attachment-parenting adherents breast-feed their children for far longer., Those mothers  and the man who introduced the world to attachment parenting, Dr. Bill Sears  were the subject of a 2012 TIME story which, controversially, ran with a cover image of real-life mom Jamie Lynne Grumet breast-feeding her 3-year-old son. And, as the story explained, even as some criticized Sears and his ideas, at least one of his pieces of advice seemed to be permeating society breast-feeding was more common than it had been in decades. As TIME's Kate Pickert put it, According to a 2014 CDC report, about a quarter of U.S. babies were still breastfeeding though not necessarily exclusively at 1 year. Read the rest of the story, here in the TIME archives The Man Who Remade Motherhood