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Teen Motherhood and Lactation and Breastfeeding

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Updated and Verified: November 09, 2024 (News page records significant changes.)

For a teen woman during motherhood, social abuse and violence often harms her metabolism, impeding lactation and breastfeeding. Motherhood is the most natural womanhood for her metabolism,1 and teen motherhood is by far the most natural motherhood for her metabolism.2 Yet, many vested interests converge to systematically harm the metabolism of teen women who become mothers. The harm ranges from social abuse to physical violence. For example, the United States federal government actively funds efforts to "prevent teen pregnancy."3 (Elements of the Mexican government similarly hate fertility and vow for an end to as much optimal pregnancy as possible: "The Mexican government has set a goal to reduce the adolescent fertility rate for 15 to 19 years of age by 50% by 2030 and to reduce fertility rates among girls ages 10 to 14 to zero," according to a report happily announced by the exceedingly trustworthy World Bank.4) Thus, one could reasonably predict that funded entities will stigmatize and even torture teen mothers by all available and legal means. Indeed, this is what happens to teen women during motherhood.

Evidence of the systematic abuse of teen women during motherhood includes a 2020 meta-synthesis by the The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, which looked at 22 studies focused on how teen women were treated during motherhood by people and entities, including medical facilities.5 Authors of the meta-synthesis concluded that widespread abuse and terrorizing of teen women often occurs during motherhood - leading the teen mothers to mother in ways that they otherwise would not, according to the authors.5 For example, the synthesis of those 22 studies reflects that a teen mother is less likely to breastfeed her baby as well as an old mother - but not for a lack of trying.5 Indeed, the authors concluded that during motherhood, teen women "navigate a [social] minefield that undermines their intention to breastfeed."5 (p. 147) Beyond this more subtle abuse and indirect violence, teen women also face systematic violence, outright and direct, during motherhood, often ruining her metabolism for breastfeeding and more.

Metabolic Violence Against Women in China

Probably the best evidence of systematic metabolic violence against women in general during pregnancy is the rampant forced abortion by the Chinese government.6-8 Yet evidence that the mass-murderers in China especially target teen women for abuse and violence during pregnancy is not as directly available. However, some reasonable inferences can be made about the ways in which the mass-murderers especially abuse teen mothers.

First, one can note the common knowledge that teen motherhood is a huge protective factor against cancer.9 Thus, forcing delayed motherhood, itself, can be reasonably seen as a form of violence against these women because of the inevitable harm - cancer or otherwise - that the delayed motherhood will cause to her metabolism. Second, there is the fact that delayed motherhood routinely ruins her metabolism so badly that a pregnant old woman is hundreds of times more likely than a pregnant teen woman to afflict her child with Down Syndrome.10 And by these facts and one final fact, one can reasonably infer that the mass-murderers in China especially target teen women for abuse and violence during pregnancy.

That final fact is the methodology of a 2022 retrospective data analysis by researchers in China. There, the researchers looked at the results of 206,295 pregnancies to understand the relationship between maternal age and Down Syndrome rate.11 And what turns the retrospective analysis into evidence of abuse targeted against teen women - is that the researchers sorted the pregnancies into three cohorts: (1) 34 years of age and older, (2) 27–33 years of age, and (3) 26 years and under.11 The researchers then began referring to 26 year old women as young11 - even as a 26 years old is not metabolically young at all, certainly not for a primipara (first-time mother). Indeed, a woman who puts off motherhood into her twenties routinely harms her metabolism to the point of doubling her risk of cancer in the life.8 Nevertheless, the researchers, in a study funded by the mass-murderers of the Chinese government, reported that the study proves the need to "increase the awareness in these young mothers to prevent [pregnancy] in other young [women]."11 (p. 4)

Thus arises an example of the dangers of teen pregnancy: that people, hospitals, and even governments may systematically abuse her - and then report the consequences of that abuse - her reactions - as evidence that teen pregnancy is bad. Yet, if she can avoid this social abuse and governmental violence, then all other signs point to teen motherhood being definitively superior to delayed motherhood and forgone motherhood.2

References

References

  1. Motherhood. HerMetabolism.org. https://hermetabolism.org/motherhood
  2. Teen Motherhood. HerMetabolism.org. https://hermetabolism.org/teen-motherhood
  3. Teen pregnancy prevention program. Office of Population Affairs: U.S. Office of Health and Human Services. Accessed June 1, 2024. https://opa.hhs.gov/grant-programs/teen-pregnancy-prevention-program
  4. Cadenapaola K, Buitrago-hernandez, Inchauste G. Preventing teenage pregnancy: A priority for the well-being of women in Mexico. World Bank. Accessed June 26, 2024. https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/latinamerica/preventing-teenage-pregnancy-priority-well-being-women-mexico
  5. SmithBattle L, Phengnum W, Punsuwun S. Navigating a minefield: Meta-synthesis of teen mothers’ breastfeeding experience. Am J Matern Child Nurs. 2020;45(3):145-154. http://doi.org/doi:10.1097/NMC.0000000000000609
  6. Report of the Fourth World Conference on Women: Beijing, 4 - 15 September 1995. United Nations; 1996. https://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/beijing/pdf/Beijing%20full%20report%20E.pdf
  7. Mosher SW, Abbamonte J. Forced Abortion Still Mandated under China’s “Planned Birth” Laws. Population Research Institute; 2018. https://www.pop.org/forced-abortion-still-mandated-chinas-planned-birth-laws/
  8. Li Y. Reflections on the causes of forced abortion in China. Lancet. 2012;380(9844):804. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61447-0
  9. Teen Motherhood and Breast Cancer. HerMetabolism.org. https://hermetabolism.org/teen-motherhood-and-breast-cancer
  10. Delayed Motherhood and Down Syndrome. HerMetabolism.org. https://hermetabolism.org/delayed-motherhood-and-down-syndrome
  11. Song Y, Jieping S, Tianshu Z, Zhijun Z, Jingxuan Z, Bo W. Incidence of Down syndrome by maternal age in Chinese population. Front Genet. 2022;13:980627. http://doi.org/doi:10.3389/fgene.2022.980627

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Obviously, those standards are extremely conservative, if not heavy-handed. However, one should remember that many of those people in government who uphold such strict standards have seen the stuff of nightmares: predictable, preventable, terrible consequences when the least capable and least conscientious people make the worst decisions - whether medically, legally, nutritionally, or otherwise. So, it is not wildly unreasonable to promote - even to legally command - erring on the safe side. Still, various jurisdictions do provide some exceptions to those exceptionally strict standards under law.

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PhD (Thanatology), PsyD (Psychology), DLP (Law and Policy), MPH (Nutrition & Epidemiology), MS (Nutrition), MA (Counseling)

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