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Time Cover Shows 3-Year-Old Breast-Feeding
ABCNews ^ | May 10, 2012

Posted on 05/10/2012 8:57:14 PM PDT by Steelfish

May 10, 2012 11:24am Time Cover Shows 3-Year-Old Breast-Feeding

This week's cover of Time Magazine shows a mother nursing her 3-year-old son.

Should a mom continue nursing her child even after he’s too big to be held in her arms? For mothers who practice what’s known as “attachment parenting,” the answer is an emphatic “yes” — and some are more than happy to demonstrate.

This week’s cover of Time Magazine shows Los Angeles mother Jamie Lynne Grumet nursing her 3-year-old son, who reaches her breast with the help of a chair.

“When you think of breast-feeding, you think of mothers holding their children, which was impossible with some of these older kids,” photographer Martin Schoeller said in a Time Magazine online story explaining the cover photo. “I liked the idea of having the kids standing up to underline the point that this was an uncommon situation.”

The cover story illustrated by the photo takes a look at the philosophy of attachment parenting today — which, in addition to extended breastfeeding, also promotes co-sleeping and using slings to “wear” infants — and its roots in the 1992 parenting guide, “The Baby Book” by Dr. Bill and Martha Sears.

Time also posted photos of other nursing mothers featured in its story, including Missouri mom Dionna Ford of Kansas City, Mo., shown here at right with her four-year-old and five-month-old children.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: attachmentparenting; billsears; breastfeeding; parenting; thebabybook; williamsears
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To: Steelfish

It looks criminal to me. No breastfeeding child should ever reach an age that it will have a memory of the act.


21 posted on 05/10/2012 10:13:32 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: tioga

Wow, I had only seen a head shot of that photo. I did not see the kid standing on a chair. That was so deliberately provacative. If you only look at the kid’ss face, he could be still 2. Seeing him standing there was a bit disturbing.


22 posted on 05/10/2012 10:29:14 PM PDT by Explorer89 (And now, let the wild rumpus start!!)
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To: Steelfish

23 posted on 05/10/2012 11:10:53 PM PDT by TheBattman (Isn't the lesser evil... still evil?)
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I see nothing wrong with breast feeding even in public, there is nothing sexual about it. However, sensationalizing it like this is ridiculous. I have wondered, historically, at what age children were weaned from breast feeding. I would assume that children would be weaned when they were capable of eating real food, which they obviously can at 3. What age do tribal people wean? Does anybody know?


24 posted on 05/10/2012 11:28:02 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: TheBattman

Wrong on so many levels.


25 posted on 05/10/2012 11:29:42 PM PDT by varina davis (A real American patriot -- Gov. Rick Perry)
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To: Steelfish

Primative woman would likely be pregnant again within two years. This seems unnatural. It would seem nature’s way to foster physical independence by the time the kid eats solid food, can feed himself and is independently mobile.

Humans are hard-wired to be raised by a clan of about 20. This gives them exposure to a variety of experience, skills and survival strategies. Such extended relationships would also provide insurance of survival.

This seems to stifle emotional development of the child. I predict and extremely rebellious teen as he tries to break free of Mom and become an independent adult. Either that, or he will be a dependent emotional cripple.


26 posted on 05/10/2012 11:30:47 PM PDT by marsh2
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To: Steelfish

What next, portraying Bonobo incest for humans, as it is natural with one of mankind’s closest relatives.


27 posted on 05/10/2012 11:35:44 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (I'll be a nice to you as you'll let me be, or as mean as you make me be.)
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To: Steelfish

I’ve heard that an in-law of mine did this to an even higher age. She is a very smart individual and wanted her children to have optimum brain development, based on the nutrition from human milk. Her kids have turned out fine.


28 posted on 05/11/2012 12:37:06 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: Sea Parrot

I knew three families that practiced extended breast feeding.

All three families were downright weird about many things and extended breast feeding was just one of the symptoms.


29 posted on 05/11/2012 12:39:28 AM PDT by american_ranger
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To: Steelfish

How can that kid only be 3 ? He looks the size of a 9 or 10 year old.


30 posted on 05/11/2012 1:50:44 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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31 posted on 05/11/2012 2:15:38 AM PDT by Casie
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To: Steelfish

This month’s Time magazine cover shows how bad taste has become mainstream and that it’s been that way for at least an entire generation.


32 posted on 05/11/2012 2:19:52 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth again.)
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To: Casie

Perfect!


33 posted on 05/11/2012 2:22:23 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth again.)
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To: Steelfish

Heck, I try it as often as possible and I’m errr retired.
Never too old.:^)


34 posted on 05/11/2012 2:29:40 AM PDT by Vinnie (A)
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To: Steelfish
Breastfeeding, Bullys, and Birth Control are the 3 cause-celebres of the Left.
35 posted on 05/11/2012 2:33:24 AM PDT by Hacksaw (If I had a son, he'd look like George Zimmerman.)
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To: dsrtsage
What age do tribal people wean?

Average age of weaning in "traditional" societies is commonly claimed to be 4-5. But the range is enormous.

A lactating woman is considerably less likely to become pregnant, so breastfeeding is to some extent a natural contraceptive or way of spacing children.

36 posted on 05/11/2012 2:33:57 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: lastchance
“The cover is a blatant attempt to generate controversy. Nothing wrong with extended breast feeding. Something very wrong with the way the photo is posed, which frankly does sexualize nursing.”

Exactly! This is not a tender Mary Cassatt painting. TIME wreaks of desperation peddling copies of their irrelevant magazine using a misguided woman's boobs.

37 posted on 05/11/2012 2:37:39 AM PDT by Casie
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To: Steelfish

38 posted on 05/11/2012 2:40:42 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth again.)
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To: Steelfish
I know wrong when I see it, this is wrong.

Nuff said!

39 posted on 05/11/2012 2:41:56 AM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Newt......Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun

That kid looks closer to four than three...as you can see; the photoshops are already popping up...this arrogant, self-indulgent mother has made that kid’s life a living hell...they just don’t know it yet.


40 posted on 05/11/2012 2:47:48 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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