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“... to which Stone seemingly now owes little in the way of allegiance. Similarly, the book by Valerie Fildes has many other purposes besides the falsification of a further proposition put forward in the 1970s: the proposition that, in the past, babies were neglected and mothers lacking in affection. Indeed, Breasts, Bottles and Babies is a valiant ...”

“... his milk-mother’s descendants, nor the milk kin of his own children or other near relatives. Fildes concentrates on her topic to the exclusion of outside influences. She does not give much attention to the interesting question of why wet nursing ceased to be fashionable in Britain yet remained in wide use in France. The change in Britain seems to belong ...”