Roles of Income and Acculturation in the Hispanic Paradox: Breastfeeding Among Hispanic Women

What is Already Known? The Hispanic paradox suggests Hispanic women have higher rates of breastfeeding initiation and longer duration than women of other racial/ethnic backgrounds, despite a relatively lower socioeconomic status. However, evidence of the Hispanic paradox in breastfeeding does not disaggregate Hispanic women by immigration and nativity, nor investigate the role of income.