In recent years Prof.
Anton von Menger, of Vienna, has argued (in his _Burgerliche Recht und die Besitzlosen Klassen_) that the future generation has the right to make this claim, and he proposes that every mother shall be legally bound to suckle her child unless her inability to do so has been certified by a physician.

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Schroeder (_Das Recht in der Geschlechtlichen Ordnung_, 1893, p.
346) also argued that a mother should be legally bound to suckle her infant for at least nine months, unless solid grounds could be shown to the contrary, and this demand, which seems reasonable and natural, since it is a mother's privilege as well as her duty to suckle her infant when able to do so, has been insistently made by others also.

It has been supported from the legal side by Weinberg (_Mutterschutz_, Sept., 1907).

In France the Loi Roussel forbids a woman to act as a wet-nurse until her child is seven months old, and this has had an excellent effect in lowering infantile mortality (A.Allee, _Puericulture et la Loi Roussel_, These de Paris, 1908).

In some parts of Germany manufacturers are compelled to set up a suckling-room in the factory, where mothers can give the breast to the child in the intervals of work.