Kelli Roman shows her breastfeeding her daughter Ivy. (AP/Kelli Roman)
Facebook began as a site just for college kids,
but now it is an online home for 140 million people from all over the
world. Among the new faces of Facebook are women like Kelli Roman, 23,
who last year posted a photo of herself nursing one of her two children.
One day, she logged on to find the photo missing. When she pressed Facebook for an explanation, she got form e-mails in return.
Facebook bars people from uploading anything "obscene, pornographic
or sexually explicit" — a policy that translates into a ban on pictures
depicting certain amounts of exposed flesh.
Roman responded by starting a Facebook group called "Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!"
"There is nothing about bottle-feeding a child that has to be
discreet," said Roman, who lives in Fallbrook, Calif., in an interview.
"With breast-feeding, it should be the exact same way."
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