It was all about shock value.
Nothing wrong with breast feeding unless you turn it into kiddie porn
The woman is an idiot.
Unfortunately her son is going to have to live with her stupidity for the rest of his life since the photo will be on every social media site forever!
This woman is a pedophiles dream, and it seems her so-called husband is getting his wish. They are trying to make kiddie porn acceptable, and there is a special place below for subhumans like this.
This truly makes me ill.
How can she produce enough milk for her 4 year old child and her husband? She has to be getting a thrill up her leg like Chris Matthews.
How can she produce enough milk for her 4 year old child and her husband? She has to be getting a thrill up her leg like Chris Matthews.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies be exclusively breastfed for about the first 6 months of life. This means your baby needs no additional foods (except Vitamin D) or fluids unless medically indicated. Babies should continue to breastfeed for a year and for as long as is mutually desired by the mother and baby.
As I understand it breast feeding past two years, and sometimes well into the third year, used to be fairly common.
As a side effect, while the mother is still breast feeding she is much less likely to become pregnant again.
The human breast is primarily an instrument of nutrition for the young and only secondarily sexual. In a healthy society, that is.
Those who see kiddie porn in this photo are importing something from their own mind that isn’t actually in it.
The editors, of course, also saw sexuality in the image, which is why they chose to use it.
Hannah in the Bible, the mother of the prophet Samuel, sent him off to serve in the temple as soon as he was weaned, which certainly doesn’t imply he was a six-month or year-old infant.
In the book of Maccabees a woman reminds her son she nursed him for three years, which was probably the approximate standard for Middle Eastern cultures of the time.
This poor kid is going to suffer the tortures of the damned throughout his school years and will make some psychiatrist very wealthy some day. This has to be some kind of record-setter for self-absorbed, clueless parenting.
Here’s the American Academy of Family Physicians position on how long a child should be breast-fed. Seems perfectly logical to me.
“As recommended by the WHO, breastfeeding should ideally continue beyond infancy, but this is not the cultural norm in the United States and requires ongoing support and encouragement.69 It has been estimated that a natural weaning age for humans is between two and seven years.70 Family physicians should be knowledgeable regarding the ongoing benefits to the child of extended breastfeeding, including continued immune protection,71 better social adjustment,72 and having a sustainable food source in times of emergency. The longer women breastfeed, the greater the decrease in their risk of breast cancer.73”
http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/policy/policies/b/breastfeedingpositionpaper.html
While I’d never pose with my kids like this, I’m quite disturbed at FReepers commenting on her personal pleasure. As a nursing mommy, I can assure everyone that there is NO sexual pleasure from nursing. More power to her for her choice, I’d love the fortitude to pump and then pour into a cup milk for my kids; however, 18 months is all each of them gets from me! Mommy can only take so much!
TIME Magazine is, frankly, over.
Like USN&WR and Newsweek, no one will attend its funeral.
As my cousin very wisely observed, “He’s gonna go to high school with kids who saw that.” And mercy they will show him none.
This is not kiddie porn. There is no sex act here. Feeding a babe-in-arms from the mother's breast must have no prurient sexual connotation in a mature culture.
The real depravity here is that it it child abuse! No child should be forced to carry memories into adulthood of suckling at his mother's breast. There is no way to predict or imagine the psychological basket-case this child or another child of similar circumstances will become due to this pernicious act.
Couple that with the understanding that this mother was willing to prostitute her parental duty and violate the trust of the boy for notoriety or some other petty gain reveals her truly aberrant crime.
What kind of sicko equates breastfeeding with sex?
I guess i don’t care what other people do as long as they don’t try and push it on the rest of us...which these nazi breast feeders do.
To me its just common sense. Breastfeeding is for babies. not toddlers. If they have teeth and can eat food then they should be door sucking on the tit.
I suppose if this were a third world country it might be a different story...but it isn’t. we have nutritous food in abundance and don’t need to breast feed for years.
My children were all breastfed for about six months. all are happy, well rounded, non-obese, straight A students. And since all are in their teens and none have had more than a common cold or the flu i would say extremely healthy. So seriously i can’t see what breastfeeding for decades would have given them that they don’t already have.
I resent the implication that if you don’t nurse for eons that your kids will be unhealthy, fat little retards.
Using common sense is a rare commodity; and whatever sells is what they’re selling. Breast feeding a baby, covered with a little modesty is beautiful . . a baby being the operative word; but their aim is to ultimately present the extreme as something the bitter clingers out here do. In reality, the normal person is modest and reasonable about it.
I think it’s a personal decision for and by the family. If someone wants to breast feed their child that long be my guest. I’m inclined to think it benefits the Mother more than the child though. Maybe she gets lots of attention, even it some of it is bad. Maybe she can’t let go.
Also it was definitely shock value on Time’s part, and for selling magazines. I wouldn’t have a problem if the picture were of the Mother seated with the child facing her with his back to the camera. But standing on a chair? and looking into the camera like he’s saying, “see, there’s nothing wrong with it right?” and the Mother looks like she’s ready to leave for yoga class or something. It just doesn’t look right.
There is definitely nothing wrong with breast feeding, but it should and can be done modestly.