There is a photo of a woman breastfeeding her three-year-old son on today's cover of
TIME Magazine, with an article about attachment parenting. Here is the cover:
^ Note, that is not a model; it is actually the MILF with her son suckling on her breast.
The article doesn't appear to be available online, but the
Calgary Herald had a piece on it with the following snippets:
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Shocking or no big deal? A woman breastfeeding her 3-year-old son is the cover photo of this week’s Time magazine for a story on “attachment parenting,” and reactions ranged from applause to cringing to shrugs.
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Reaction to the cover underscored a cultural rift between traditional childrearing and what some have deemed “extreme parenting.” The attachment philosophy encourages mothers to respond to their babies’ every cry and form close bonds with near-constant physical contact through “co-sleeping” (letting them sleep in the bed with parents rather than in cribs) and “baby-wearing” (carrying them on slings instead of pushing them in strollers).
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Sooooo, thoughts?