‘The View': Sara Haines Slams ‘Dismissive’ and ‘Uninformed’ Advice to ‘Just Breastfeed’ During Baby Formula Shortage (Video)
thewrap.com“The View” host Sara Haines has had just about enough of people telling mothers to “just breastfeed” instead. On Friday’s show, she called it “dismissive” and “insensitive” advice.To kick off the discussion, Joy Behar — moderating while Whoopi Goldberg was out — asked the table if they believe, as Republicans seem to, that Joe Biden is at fault for the formula shortage.
The answer was a resounding no. For host Sunny Hostin, the true blame lies in “the fact that we have terrible maternity leave.”“Because a lot of women would love to be able to stay home and breastfeed their children and take care of their children,” Hostin said. “And the fact of the matter is, we can’t do that, because we have very limited maternity leave.
And we have to immediately go back to work to take care of our families and feed our families. And the government doesn’t support us in that.
And I think that’s where the problem is.”Hostin then recalled how she had to borrow paid leave from her co-workers back when she had her son in 2002.
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