Some idiot posted a few days ago that breast-feeding kids as old as toddlers, old enough to talk, was "the way humans lived up until the last 100 years or so." Yeah -- right! As if in the Pioneer American West or a middle-class 18th century European city or town, any toddler who ran up to his/her mom while she was busy working or perhaps socializing, and yanked down her shirt to nurse, would be tolerated.
And food for thought: what kind of response do you suppose we'd be seeing if instead of a three-year-old boy at the teat, it was a three-year-old girl? Hmmmmmmmmmmm?
Oh, kids were breastfed as toddlers in the 19th, early 20th century. Read some fiction like a “Tree Grows in Brooklyn” which has a classic chapter on a little brat who refuses to be weaned.
A lot of the breastfeeding had to do with not becoming pregnant.
And I’ll never forget Zelda Fitzgerald’s remark that she was breastfed until “she could chew sticks.” That would have been around 1905.
I hate this photo. It is in very bad taste and will cause that dumb kid a life of heartache.