Does breastfeeding protect against substantiated child abuse and neglect? A 15-year cohort study

Pediatrics

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 483-493

  Strathearn, Lane ^a,b,c   Mamun, Abdullah A ^c   Najman, Jake M ^c   O'Callaghan, Michael J ^c,d  

^a Department of Pediatrics   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d MATER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attachment; Breastfeeding; Child maltreatment; Child neglect; Mother child relations; Oxytocin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD CARE; CHILD NEGLECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEWBORN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD ABUSE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61549100575     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-3546     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. US Department of Health and Human Services. Child Maltreatment 2005. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office; 2007
2. De Bellis MD, Baum AS, Birmaher B, et al. A. E. Bennett Research Award: developmental traumatology, part I: biological stress systems. Biol Psychiatry. 1999;45(10):1259-1270
3. Strathearn L, Gray PH, O'Callaghan M, Wood DO. Childhood neglect and cognitive development in extremely low birth weight infants: a prospective study. Pediatrics. 2001;108(1):142-151
4. Collishaw S, Pickles A, Messer J, Rutter M, Shearer C, Maughan B. Resilience to adult psychopathology following childhood maltreatment: evidence from a community sample. Child Abuse Negl. 2007;31(3):211-229
5. Pianta R, Egeland B, Erickson MF. The antecedents of maltreatment: results of the Mother-Child Interaction Research Project. In: Cicchetti D, Carlson V, eds. Child Maltreatment: Theory and Research on the Causes and Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; 1989:203-253
6. Pears KC, Capaldi DM. Intergenerational transmission of abuse: a two-generational prospective study of an at-risk sample. Child Abuse Negl. 2001;25(11):1439-1461
7. Sidebotham P, Heron J. Child maltreatment in the "children of the nineties": a cohort study of risk factors. Child Abuse Negl. 2006;30(5):497-522
8. Belsky J. Etiology of child maltreatment: a developmental- ecological analysis. Psychol Bull. 1993;114(3):413-434
9. Crittenden PM, Bonvillian JD. The relationship between maternal risk status and maternal sensitivity. Am J Orthopsychiatry. 1984;54(2):250-262
10. Stern JM. Offspring-induced nurturance: animal-human parallels. Dev Psychobiol. 1997;31(1):19-37
11. Chiodera P, Salvarani C, Bacchi-Modena A, et al. Relationship between plasma profiles of oxytocin and adrenocorticotropic hormone during suckling or breast stimulation in women. Horm Res. 1991;35(3-4):119-123
12. Heinrichs M, Meinlschmidt G, Neumann I, et al. Effects of suckling on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to psychosocial stress in postpartum lactating women. J Clin En- docrinol Metab. 2001;86(10):4798-4804
13. Uvnas-Moberg K, Eriksson M. Breastfeeding: physiological, endocrine and behavioural adaptations caused by oxytocin and local neurogenic activity in the nipple and mammary gland. Acta Paediatr. 1996;85(5):525-530
14. Levine A, Zagoory-Sharon O, Feldman R, Weller A. Oxytocin during pregnancy and early postpartum: individual patterns and maternal-fetal attachment. Peptides. 2007;28(6):1162-1169
15. Mezzacappa ES, Katlin ES. Breast-feeding is associated with reduced perceived stress and negative mood in mothers. Health Psychol. 2002;21(2):187-193
16. Bauer WD, Twentyman CT. Abusing, neglectful, and comparison mothers' responses to child-related and non-child-related stressors. J Consult Clin Psychol. 1985;53(3):335-343
17. Fergusson DM, Woodward LJ. Breast feeding and later psychosocial adjustment. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 1999;13(2):144 -157
18. Lvoff NM, Lvoff V, Klaus MH. Effect of the Baby-Friendly Initiative on infant abandonment in a Russian hospital. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2000;154(5):474-477
19. Buranasin B. The effects of rooming-in on the success of breastfeeding and the decline in abandonment of children. Asia Pac J Public Health. 1991;5(3):217-220
20. Keeping JD, Najman JM, Morrison J, Western JS, Andersen MJ, Williams GM. A prospective longitudinal study of social, psychological and obstetric factors in pregnancy: response rates and demographic characteristics of the 8556 respondents. Br J Obstet Gynaecol. 1989;96(3):289-297
21. Scott JA, Binns CW. Factors associated with the initiation and duration of breastfeeding: a review of the literature. Breastfeed Rev. 1999;7(1):5-16
22. Britton JR, BrittonHL, Gronwaldt V. Breastfeeding, sensitivity, and attachment. Pediatrics. 2006;118(5). Available at: www.pediatrics.org/ cgi/content/full/118/5/e1436
23. Bedford A, Foulds G. Delusions-Symptoms-States Inventory: State of Anxiety and Depression. Windsor, England: NFER Publishing; 1978
24. Kruse RL, Ewigman BG, Tremblay GC. The Zipper: a method for using personal identifiers to link data while preserving confidentiality. Child Abuse Negl. 2001;25(9):1241-1248
25. Steering Committee for the Review of Commonwealth/State Service Provision. Report on Government Services2000. Canberra, Australia: AusInfo; 2000
26. Hogan JW, Roy J, Korkontzelou C. Handling drop-out in longitudinal studies. Stat Med. 2004;23(9):1455-1497
27. Neumann I, Ludwig M, Engelmann M, Pittman QJ, Landgraf R. Simultaneous microdialysis in blood and brain: oxytocin and vasopressin release in response to central and peripheral osmotic stimulation and suckling in the rat. Neuroendocrinology. 1993;58(6):637-645
28. Uvnas-Moberg K. The Oxytocin Factor. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press; 2003
29. Meddle SL, Bishop VR, Gkoumassi E, van Leeuwen FW, Douglas AJ. Dynamic changes in oxytocin receptor expression and activation at parturition in the rat brain. Endocrinology. 2007; 148(10):5095-5104
30. Pedersen CA, Caldwell JD, Peterson G, Walker CH, Mason GA. Oxytocin activation of maternal behavior in the rat. AnnNY Acad Sci. 1992;652:58-69
31. Pedersen CA, Ascher JA, Monroe YL, Prange AJ Jr. Oxytocin induces maternal behavior in virgin female rats. Science. 1982; 216(4546):648-650
32. Keverne EB, Kendrick KM. Oxytocin facilitation of maternal behavior in sheep. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1992;652:83-101
33. Tomizawa K, Iga N, Lu YF, et al. Oxytocin improves long- lasting spatial memory during motherhood through MAP ki- nase cascade. Nat Neurosci. 2003;6(4):384-390
34. Ferguson JN, Young LJ, Hearn EF, Matzuk MM, Insel TR, Winslow JT. Social amnesia in mice acking the oxytocin gene. Nat Genet. 2000;25(3):284-288
35. Engelmann M, Ebner K, Wotjak CT, Landgraf R. Endogenous oxytocin is involved in short-term olfactory memory in female rats. Behav Brain Res. 1998;90(1):89-94
36. Kosfeld M, Heinrichs M, Zak PJ, Fischbacher U, Fehr E. Oxy- tocin increases trust in humans. Nature. 2005;435(7042):673-676
37. Domes G, Heinrichs M, Michel A, Berger C, Herpertz SC. Oxytocin improves "mind-reading" in humans. Biol Psychiatry. 2007;61(6):731-733
38. Heinrichs M, Baumgartner T, Kirschbaum C, Ehlert U. Social support and oxytocin interact to suppress cortisol and subjective responses to psychosocial stress. Biol Psychiatry. 2003; 54(12):1389-1398
39. Kirsch P, Esslinger C, Chen Q, et al. Oxytocin modulates neural circuitry for social cognition and fear in humans. J Neurosci. 2005;25(49):11489-11493
40. Febo M, Numan M, Ferris CF. Functional magnetic resonance imaging shows oxytocin activates brain regions associated with mother-pup bonding during suckling. J Neurosci. 2005;25(50): 11637-11644
41. Ferris CF, Kulkarni P, Sullivan JM Jr, Harder JA, Messenger TL, Febo M. Pup suckling is more rewarding than cocaine: evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging and three- dimensional computational analysis. J Neurosci. 2005;25(1):149 -156
42. Strathearn L, Li J, Fonagy P, Montague PR. What's in a smile? Maternal brain responses to infant facial cues. Pediatrics. 2008; 122(1):40-51. Erratum published in Pediatrics. 2008;122(3):689
43. Champagne FA, Weaver ICG, Diorio J, Sharma S, Meaney MJ. Natural variations in maternal care are associated with estrogen receptor a expression and estrogen sensitivity in the medial preoptic area. Endocrinology. 2003;144(11):4720-4724
44. Champagne FA, Weaver ICG, Diorio J, Dymov S, Szyf M, Meaney MJ. Maternal care associated with methylation of the estrogen receptor-a1b promoter and estrogen receptor-a expression in the medial preoptic area of female offspring. Endocrinology. 2006;147(6):2909-2915
45. Pedersen CA, Boccia ML. Oxytocin links mothering received, mothering bestowed and adult stress responses. Stress. 2002; 5(4):259-267
46. Cohany SR, Sok E. Trends in labor force participation of married mothers of infants. Mon Labor Rev. 2007;130(2):9 -16
47. McGee R, Wolfe D, Yuen S, Wilson S, Carnochan J. The measurement of maltreatment: a comparison of approaches. Child Abuse Negl. 1995;19(2):233-249
48. Crittenden PM. Child neglect: causes and contributors. In: Dubowitz H, ed. Neglected Children: Research, Practice, and Policy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications; 1999:47-68
49. Kramer MS, Chalmers B, Hodnett ED, et al. Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT): a randomized trial in the Republic of Belarus. JAMA. 2001;285(4):413-420
50. Ip S, Chung M, Raman G, et al. Breastfeeding and Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes in Developed Countries. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2007. Report 153
51. Su LL, Chong YS, Chan YH, et al. Antenatal education and postnatal support strategies for improving rates of exclusive breast feeding: randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2007;335(7620):596
52. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Child Protection Australia 2004-05. Canberra, Australia: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; 2006. Report CWS 26
53. Gribble KD. Mental health, attachment and breastfeeding: implications for adopted children and their mothers. Int Breastfeed J. 2006;1(1):5
54. National Health and Medical Research Council. Dietary Guidelines for Children and Adolescents in Australia Incorporating the Infant Feeding Guidelines for Health Workers. Canberra, Australia:AusInfo; 2003
55. Visness CM, Kennedy KI. Maternal employment and breastfeeding: findings from the 1988 National Maternal and Infant Health Survey. Am J Public Health. 1997;87(6):945-950
56. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Breastfeeding trends and updated national health objectives for exclusive breastfeeding: United States, birth years 2000-2004. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2007;56(30):760-763
57. American Academy of Pediatrics, Work Group on Breastfeeding. Breastfeeding and the use of human milk. Pediatrics. 1997; 100(6):1035-1039
58. World Health Organization; United Nations Children's Fund. WHO/UNICEF Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative. Available at: www.babyfriendly.org. Accessed October 10, 2007