Among infants born during 2010 — 2013, the gap in breastfeeding initiation between black and white infants was 17.2 percentage points, only slightly less than the 19.9 percentage point difference between black and
white infants born during 2003 — 2006 (a timeframe when the methodology only included the landline sample)(4).
It's not mostly
white infants born to unwed white mothers being raised by married white couples.
Not exact matches
For
infants born between 2010 and 2013, the gap in breastfeeding initiation between black and
white infants was 17.2 percentage points.
It found that
infants born by C - section had more DNA methylation in their
white blood cells than babies delivered vaginally.
The percentage point difference in the rate of exclusive breastfeeding through 6 months between black and
white infants was 7.8 for children
born during 2003 — 2006 (CDC, Nutrition Branch, unpublished data, 2016), and 8.5 for
infants born during 2010 — 2013.
CDC analyzed 2011 — 2015 National Immunization Survey (NIS) data for children
born during 2010 — 2013 to describe breastfeeding initiation, exclusivity through 6 months and duration at 12 months among black and
white infants.
Among
infants born during 2010 — 2013, 64.3 % of non-Hispanic black
infants started breastfeeding, compared to 81.5 % of
white infants, a gap of 17.2 percentage points.
The results might raise eyebrows, such as her use of John Bowlby's
infant attachment theory to explain the behaviour of grizzly
bears, or the observation that
white sharks are «individuals who are conventional with narrow interests».