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Rural-urban differences in breast-feeding and feeding practices of children by black Zimbabwean parents

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posted on 2024-09-06, 05:50 authored by S. Nyagura
This study investigated the attitudes, values, beliefs, and practices of black Zimbabwean parents towards breast-feeding and child-feeding. Child rearing practices of parents {fathers and mothers) with children in preschools and in lower grades of primary school were studied. The evidence in this study showed that more rural than urban parents breast-fed their children for longer periods when the children were still young. The breast-feeding period ranged from six months to two years. Evidence also showed that uneducated rural parents were more likely to stop breast-feeding for medical reasons while the urban educated parents were more likely to stop breast-feeding for work reasons.

A study on the rural-urban differences in breast-feeding practices by black Zimbabwean parents.

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Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC), University of Zimbabwe (UZ)

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Nyagura, S. (1999) Rural-urban differences in breast-feeding and feeding practices of children by black Zimbabwean parents, Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research, vol. 11, no.1, pp.13-26. Harare: HRRC.

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University of Zimbabwe (UZ)

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Zimbabwe.

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en

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1013-3445

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