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Mother in court for not breastfeeding baby

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  • ROMANO 11 years ago

    SHE IS WORRIED ABOUT HER BREAST SAGGING WHICH WILL NOT ATTRACT HER CUSTOMERS.WISE-TALK UK MOTHER IS A COCK SUCKER.WISE-TALK MOTHER BE ASHAWO GOAL-QUEEN IN AFRICA.

  • Holly 11 years ago

    Ok, was the baby starved? If not, how can the court take on such a dumb case?

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 11 years ago

    Such dumb case. If the child is given KOKO and milk, that should be enough. Is there any law in Ghana that forces a woman to breastfeed their babies? Just asking?

  • absent father 11 years ago

    ghana is gradually becoming a nanny state. this purely a mothers choice and not an issue for the courts. are the courts going to prosecute parents who cannot afford a square meal for their children? where does this end? the s ...
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  • Lets get jiggy with it 11 years ago

    with the type of laws you have in GH, can I as an American male with an African wife in GH, take the ex-husband from her first marriage to court...since it is I whom have supported his 5 children over the last 10 yrs with no ...
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  • Lets get jiggy with it 11 years ago

    As a newborn child, I refused my mother's breast. Instead I suckled from two of my mother's best friends and one maternal aunt. As all had recently given birth too.
    Result: Today I am a womanizer, loved and very appreciated ...
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  • Glo 11 years ago

    Why have a baby if you cannot breast feed him or her? Poor planning.

  • DAN 11 years ago

    very few women breast feed in usa, that what nestle make huge profit is on small cans of formula for $20

  • ELINAM 11 years ago

    Are the social welfare people better than the aunty of the child who was not in any way abusing the child? Do they have breast milk at the welfare center? Do the govt who can not pay no one have money to cater for this child ...
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  • Dan 11 years ago

    After all the mother thinks of the baby too but poverty.......

  • Kpeplo 11 years ago

    When will ghana judicial system change ? She has the right not to breast feed so long as she use other methods to feed baby. Did anyone check her for postpartum psychosis ? These courts have nothing better doing look for the ...
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  • Tina usa 11 years ago

    It not easy brothers

  • Oppong Stephen 11 years ago

    i think what the woman is saying is a lie why am i saying so? this woman i think is up to something.it could be that she wants the child away from her side not because she want to work hard to be able to take care of the oth ...
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