Is bedsharing dangerous for infants? DCFS says 'Yes'

27 January 2012, 6:08 am

Is sleeping in the same bed with your baby akin to a death sentence for your child? The state's leading agency charged with the protection of children seems to think so. But some experts say mothers sleeping in the same bed with their infants is a practice as old as time itself. "We got that wrong from the beginning. We simply gave rise to this ideology," an anthropologist says.... Read More »

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