In the Time article, she said she's been confronted by strangers who see her son nursing and threaten "to call social services on me or that it's child molestation."
Huffington Post reports:
Read the story and see the photographsIn the provocative new cover story of its May 21 issue, TIME Magazine taps into a two-decade-long parenting conversation that has boiled over in recent months. Journalist Kate Pickert reports on the rise of attachment parenting, a set of techniques popularized by Dr. William (Bill) Sears in "The Baby Book," his 767-page treatise published in 1992.
According to Dionna Ford, of Kansas City, MO who was also featured in the story and in fact says she breastfeeds all of her small children (the oldest age 4) at the same time. She calls it "tandem breastfeeding"
"I'm not saying everyone needs to do this. It's what works for us. That's why I was disappointed in the way TIME spun the article because I work very hard to avoid judgment or criticism of another person's parenting methods.
Is it art? Exploitive? Shocking?
Personally, I see a woman's choice of when to end breastfeeding as a personal one and respect those whose choices are different than the norm.
And, would this be a NON story in any other country other than the United States?
What do you think?
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