Posted on 05/10/2012 8:57:14 PM PDT by Steelfish
It looks criminal to me. No breastfeeding child should ever reach an age that it will have a memory of the act.
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.
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?
Wrong on so many levels.
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.
What next, portraying Bonobo incest for humans, as it is natural with one of mankind’s closest relatives.
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.
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.
How can that kid only be 3 ? He looks the size of a 9 or 10 year old.
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.
Perfect!
Heck, I try it as often as possible and I’m errr retired.
Never too old.:^)
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.
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.
Nuff said!
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.
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