Great concern is currently being expressed, about the trend towards decline in breast-feeding and its implications for the health and development of children. The efforts consequently being made to promote breast feeding through social policy and proposed new legislation, such as the infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Feeding Bill (1992) tend to, focus attention almost exclusively on the welfare of the child. However, keeping in mind women's dual roles as productive workers and citizens on the one hand and mothers on the other, it is necessary to raise certain issues related to working mothers and the law it order to take a more comprehensive and balanced view of the needs of both women and children. This becomes even more important since some of the existing and proposed laws seem to be contradicting instead of complementing each other in seeking to attain common goals. It is also inadequate to consider laws alone. A holistic perspective must take account not only of laws (and rules under them) but also of Government policies as, expressed in schemes as well as prevailing work-place norms and conventions.