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Saturday, May 12, 2012

TIME Magazine's Saga of breastfeeding moms - Is this molestation?

Have you been hearing about all the hoop la surrounding Jamie Lynne Grumet a 26 year old Los Angeles mom, who was photographed breastfeeding her 3-year old on the new cover of TIME?

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:
In 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.
Read the story and see the photographs 

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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