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Time’s Breastfeeding Mom Defends Cover Photo: ‘We Knew Exactly What We Were Going to Get Into’

Times Breastfeeding Mom Defends Cover PhotoThe mom on the latest cover of Time magazine said Friday she didn’t expect such a strong public reaction to the photo of her breastfeeding her 3-year-old son.

“I don’t think any of us were expecting it,”Jamie Lynne Grumet said, appearing on NBC’s “Today” with her son Aram.

The cover, meant to illustrate the philosophy of “attachment parenting,” went viral Thursday and sparked debate about breastfeeding children past babyhood — and the appropriateness of depicting it on a national magazine.

But Grumet said she wanted to make a point, and for that, “we knew exactly what we were going to get into.” She said she herself was breastfed until she was six years old, making her family “basically one of the better families to handle this.”

According to LAist, the Los Angeles mom has a blog, “I Am Not the Baby-Sitter,” and has written about breastfeeding her adopted Ethiopian son in addition to her biological child:

“When I asked him if he would also like to breastfeed he smiled and jumped right on my lap. Our first experience breastfeeding you could tell his was an old pro. It was clear it was something he missed dearly. Something from home I was able to give him.”

As a contributor to the website MomsLA, Grumet called breastfeeding “a subject I’m passionate about“ and described participating in a breastfeeding ”nurse-in” at a Target store.

She told “Today” some breastfeeding advocates have criticized the cover for the way she was actually feeding her son.

“This isn’t how we breastfeed at home, you know, it’s more of a cradling, nurturing situation,” she said. “I do understand why Time chose this picture, you know, because it did create such a media craze to get the dialogue talking.”

Addressing one of the other tenets of attachment parenting, the so-called “family bed,” Grumet said her parenting style does not take her away from being intimate with her husband.

“I don’t feel like that takes away from my personal life. My relationship with husband is very, very important to me, and I think that it gives my children a strong bond, too,” she said. “A lot of people say, you know, you can’t really be intimate with your husband  if you’re co-sleeping and — those are kind of myths.”

Still, Grumet admitted she hopes this will be the last year of breastfeeding for Aram, who’s almost four.

“It’s not right for everybody,” she said. “You need to do what’s best for your baby.”

Watch below, via NBC:

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  • EagleEyes
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:19pm

    That woman does not look like a mom who breastfeeds. Lets just say that the process of having children & breastfeeding is not kind to the bust-line. She looks more like a model.

    I’m okay with a mom breastfeeding her child as long as she thinks is right, but it is a personal thing to be done with discretion and certainly not for the cover of a magazine.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:50pm

      I would love to see this Little DEMOCRAT”S birth certificate. Giganto 3 (Three) year old, potent breastmilk.

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    • BlenGeck
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 2:04pm

      Change out the boy in camo pants and put in a 4-5 year old little girl in a pink tutu. Wonder if people would think that’s ok? What thoughts would that provoke? btw, most mothers quit breastfeeding girls long before they pull little boys off the teat. We’ve known that for years.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 2:17pm

      I support breast feeding , and most women prefer to do it discreetly, but this kid looks a little old, to still be on the tit…… Very creepy…

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    • Dolt
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 2:25pm

      Not only does she look like a model, but if that kid is 3 years old then I’m a Giraffe. That boy is at least 6 or 7.

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    • Pita000
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 3:26pm

      This is child pornography plain and simple. I wonder if this photo had a little girl in it if Time would have used it? The answer, HELL NO! Who ever came up with this idea should be fired. A three year old child is way to old to be breast feeding.

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 3:33pm

      At this kids age she should be charged with incest. I wonder if they had to shave the kids face before the photo?

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    • lukerw
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 4:09pm

      LUCKY Kid!

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    • woodyb
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 4:23pm

      She said: “we knew exactly what we were going to get into.”

      Does that :we” include her son??????????????

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    • Blackhawk1
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 4:54pm

      This reminds me of the Movie Grown-Ups with Adam Sandler.

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    • KenInIL
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 4:59pm

      ObamaCare advocates it until kids are 26 !

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    • oneshiner
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 6:17pm

      Even dumb animals wean their young off the teat when they begin eating on their own. When others recognize this kid on the magazine cover, his life will be pure hell when the teasing begins.

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    • little big man
      Posted on May 12, 2012 at 9:06am

      Hell if my mom looked like that when I was that age I’d breast feed till I was 18

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    • toto
      Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:58pm

      She is disgusting, and not for the bare breast, but her callous disregard for her child to make a buck. She obviously knows nothing of nurturing and protection of her children.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 10:51am

      .
      Diarrhea is natural too.
      But I don’t need to see it on the cover of Time.

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  • Virginia Rebel
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:18pm

    But did she know that mothers everywhere are offended, especially the ones who chose to breast feed their kids? What she portrayed is nothing like them.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on May 12, 2012 at 1:18am

      She is an AirHead… and says that she nursed until 6 years old… and that she also nurses her Adopted Son!

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:31pm

      What about all the Children standing in line (or sitting in carts) with their parent(s) at the grocery store? Are the stores going to “brown bag” Time Mag so the Children don’t see it?

      I hope the stores decide not to display it and return them with the next delivery.

      This is all part of the Communist Manifesto; denigrate and lower the self esteem of American citizens (no matter what the age) so they will feel at home in a socialist, communist Marxist world.

      These people should be arrested and charged with contributing to the delinquency of minors. .

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  • blackyb
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:12pm

    Makes me wonder if this child is adopted, if people who adopt children are who are of the same sex or whatever, is having the groundwork layed for them to mal-treat their adopted children in this manner. Wonder who is going to play Bessie, the cow in that scenario? It seems the groundwork is being layed and children are going to be “nurtured” by those who are, in fact nurturing their own perversions.

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  • piiguissa
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:09pm

    The outrage is purelly cultural!!!!!!!People are very obcessed with breasts in this country. I’m from South America and I grew up seeing women breastfeeding in church during service, particularly the poorest people. For poor people this may be the only way to ensure their children gets fed. So breast feeding until 3, 4 is not bad in those cases. I am pro breastfeeding and I think we should be disgusted with amount of women that chooses not to breastfeed in developed countries because is “inconvenient”. We made it inconveniente by making it immoral if done publicaly, so women have hide in dirty bathrooms to breastfeed. While we get ofended by breastfeeding in public, we glamorize beer comercials, sexual ads, and sleazy tv programs!
    You see a lot more skin on red carpet than when a woman is breast feeding in public…But breastfeeding in public is ofensive and needs to be done in some public bathroom…But is ok for stars to walk around half naked for publicity and money…but not breastfeeding for publicity.

    I get that the outrage about this cover is the age of the boy, but children are very innocent at that age, they know nothing about sex and don’t think breasts are sexual. .I wouldn’t do it, but i would not look down on someone if they choose to do it. We need to encourage breastfeeding to look down on it.

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    • blackyb
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:19pm

      This has nothing to do with necessary breast feeding, this has to do with pushing the public into accepting something that is an obvious ploy to further agendas. These agendas are the ultimate goals and scenes like the breast picture is a part of it to indoctrinate the public to change what is obviously offensive and unnatural to acceptable. They are inch by inch pushing these things down the throats of the American public. This is more attacks by those who want to live like hedonists.

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    • RitafromIdaho
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:34pm

      Thank you for your wise words. I think the photo is beautiful. One showing the child snuggling with Mommy would have been better. TIME, of course, used this picture for the shock factor. You can bet that this much loved and nurtured child will be intelligent and loving as he grows to adulthood. Nursing isn’t just for the nurishment. it is for reassurance, nurturing and the closeness intended for a infant, toddler and if allowed, preschooler. Many women I’ve known through the years, including myself, had an older nursing child. Their children, as well as my own, are college educated, extremely healthy, have successful careers and stable marriages. I know a college professor and well-published writer from Japan that told me he remembered coming home from kindergarten and looking forward to nursing when he returned. Studies show that American women with the most education are the ones that believe in child-led weening and thus breastfeed much longer than most. Keep in mind, you can’t make a child nurse.

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    • JRook
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:52pm

      @blackyb Your right it has everything to do with the US growing up as it relates to nudity and intimate contact between mothers and children. If there is an agenda it is that. Its not a question of if kids are exposed to something at some magical age. It is about adult parents fostering their development into adults.

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    • piiguissa
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 2:04pm

      It would be nice if women could detach their breasts and carry them inside a bottle so it wouldn’t be offensive, but, in the real world created by GOD, breasts are attached to body and need to be exposed for feeding as GOD intended. If God had a problem with women pulling their breast out to feed he would have designed the whole thing differently. He could have made a little tube that comes out of the finger to feed milk to babies, but he wanted breasts. And breast milk is THE BEST THING FOR BABIES! To say that to expose a breast to feed is immoral you need to take your issues to the designer/creator. Because of the AMERICAN culture created by MEN breasts are immoral and indecent. But in many other cultures is embraced and people move on with their lives. As a result of breastfeeding be viewed as normal, is encoraged and more women do it. But in the US is so incovenient to breast feed and so “immoral” to do it publicaly that a lot of women just don’t want to do it…formula it is!!!!!!!!!
      Yes the magazine cover is provocative, but what magazine cover now days are not???? But we embrace them all, women wearing little clothes are glamorized everyday! Beer comercials are so funny and cute and we love to share them with people. Get it????? Beer is addictive and bad for people but is glamorized. Breastfeeding is the BEST thing for babies but let’s demonize it because….because…. our culture says so!

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    • teebubba
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 2:53pm

      The thing that is wrong with this picture besides the size of the child is the sensual defiant posing of the model.

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    • txannie
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 3:11pm

      Well stated. We here in America need to remember boobs aren’t just for showing off.

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    • BlackBeaver
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 5:05pm

      So far as I can tell, no one commenting is against a mother breast feeding her child- anywhere. And no one is calling breastfeeding “immoral”. The problem here is the age of the child and the exploitation by Time (a magazine which wants us to view it as a serious news outlet) using this photo. Until reading your comment I was unaware that some poor mothers in some parts of South America breastfeed 3- 4 year olds because “this may be the only way to ensure their children gets fed”. So perhaps it is fair to assert that this is a “cultural thing”. However, Time magazine is not being published in the backwater regions or slums of South America, it is being published in the USA. It must be judged by American standards. By those standards, this cover is child abuse and child pornography.

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    • WEBWITHDEB
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 8:14pm

      Those women in church are not standing up with their kids standing on a stool to breastfeed, I would wager. This was a STAGED picture and therefore, a misrepresentation of the issue. This boy looks bewildered and uncomfortable, AND I might add, not happy, as far as I am concerned. Am I woman enough to be a FAKE and a PHONY and use my to son (in this picture) to do something he probably was not given a choice in??? NO.

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  • paperpushermj
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:08pm

    God Protect Us From… Experts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • BeingThere
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:06pm

    Child porn, arrest her and shut the magazine down!!!!!

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  • JimmyP
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:03pm

    This Doc is advocating kids who will be bullied throughout adulthood. Pathetic.
    Funny that the feminazi‘s aren’t condemming this broad. Afterall, she can’t drag this teat sucking pigglet into the board room – yet!

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  • blackyb
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:02pm

    The jews need to kick some azz if they catch those who are doing this. A fine is a light punishment compared to what could happen if this thing gains a toehold. The schools need to install cameras so they can catch the cowards who are doing the antagonizing. It is not right, but some only learn with a good azz whooping. Some may learn with a fine, but try the right way and the legal way, but it there is no releif, do what you have to do. Don’t let people get in your space.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:58pm

    This woman is using her son to prove a point. She does not deserve to raise children if this is any indicator of how she would act if the camera is not on her. She may be some kind of pervert. Something is not right with this.

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    • RHO1953
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:13pm

      Oh, so you think the state should step in and make the decision? I disagree. This doesn’t rise to that level at all. She has the right to raise her kids the way she wants. Keep the government out of it.

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 7:36pm

      BLACKYB is another “small government” conservative who believes in small government until he wants to use government to legislate away what he finds offensives.

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    • Warpath18
      Posted on May 12, 2012 at 3:54pm

      He made no mention of the government stepping in and making the decision as to when she should stop breast-feeding. He just said it was perverted that she is feeding a 4 year-old. No mention of gov’t intervention. If she wants to breast fed until he’s 6, I’m fine with it. Put it on a magazine cover? Well okay, but you better expect backlash and criticism. If you can’t deal with the heat in the kitchen, don’t turn on the stove.

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  • nobull14
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:57pm

    Just another Butt wipe ! looking for her 15 minutes of fame ?

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  • blackyb
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:57pm

    This picture is going to go over big when the kid gets in school and plays ball. He may have to take a time out to drink from the cow’s udders.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:53pm

    Some man needs to put a stop to this woman doing this. She is ruining that little boy. Some woman needs to beat that woman who is playing Bessy the gernsey cow’s azz.

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    • marine249
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:07pm

      When a calf or a puppy or a kitten, or any thing else start
      to eat on it’s own, the mother cuts if off.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 5:02pm

      Sharia Law follower?? Beat that woman??

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  • vrodder
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:53pm

    Breastfeeding your own child is one thing, but to breastfeed an adopted child that is no longer breastfeed is pedophilia! I am really really curious to know how old the adopted child is.

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    • blackyb
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:05pm

      This kid is adopted? This is out and out child abuse.

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  • Bruce P.
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:51pm

    Sounds like this is an issue between mother, child and no one else. Everyone else should shut their traps, it is none of their business.

    Breastfeeding aside, Reason.com has a great editorial from last month mocking attachment parenting and advocating a more libertarian approach to parenting…

    http://reason.com/archives/2012/04/29/why-i-mock-attachment-parenting-and-the

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    • jakartaman
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:02pm

      I would normally agree with you
      However mommy has made it a public issue by slashing it on the cover of Time magazine.
      and no it is not for everyone – me included!

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    • blackyb
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:07pm

      Bruce, sounds like you had a bit too much of mommy milk too. You strike me as being someone who would let a child breast feed off you. Perhaps if Obama stays in long enough, you will get that chance, at leas for awhile, or until the Law get some traction again in this country.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:14pm

      So breastfeeding someone elses kid is OK too? When do you cut them off? When they are a teenager? Good grief you are stupid.

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    • piiguissa
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 2:36pm

      If this was a magazine cover about liquor, cigaretts and that super hot malboro man looking so classy smoking a cigarett, it wouldn’t have made news at all, because things that are REALLY destructive are EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK and being glamorized and we gladly accept them ALL!

      We have tv shows promoting casual sex and glamorizing it, in a way that casual sex never has bad consequences, no STDS, no unwanted pregnancies… But is so normal, safe and very cool, we watch them and laugh.
      Sports illustrated swiming suit issue cover shows a LOT more skin than that, yet is really really cool because is promoting women as sex objects. Nothing wrong with that! But to promote breast feeding is an outrage! It’s a provocation! Let’s comdem this woman and get back to promoting abortion, infidelity, casual sex, drinking, smoking, materialism… that’s safer and better for our culture
      The so called super models looking like POWs due to starving themselves are making millions by walking around naked and promoting that image to young women, but let’s not be outraged about that because our culture told us that is ok and cute. They are “hot” we want to see them naked all over as long as they are not breast feeding in public because that would be an provocation! Wearing almost nothing with their legs spread wide open is ok, but please: no breastfeeding

      Here’s the rule: Models with a t back tiny bikiny botton, covering their niples with sea shells it’s ok, but anyone breast feedin

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 3:03pm

      @BRUCE P.

      Thanks for the link. How true.

      I call those type of parents ‘helicopter parents’, always hovering and way too involved.

      As a stay at home dad for the past 15 years, I’ve seen lots of parents at school, on the soccer fields, McDonald’s, etc, and I am amazed at some of the parenting styles. They range from little to no parenting skills (always on the phone) to over-protective types (don’t run, Johnnie).

      There is a fine line and it can be difficult to find. Parents learn as much from their kids as the kids learn from the parents. The gal in the article is learning.

      As far as this mom goes, it’s great she breast feeds, but I must agree with the folks that say putting it on the cover of “Time” may be too much.

      You are correct in saying it’s between the mom and child, and I would never interfere with such an important function as feeding your child, or the close bond it builds.

      All I ask for is a little modesty.

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 3:36pm

      @BRUCE P.

      BTW – The ‘gal in the article’ is a reference to the link you gave, not the ‘Time” mom.

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  • Bruce P.
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:51pm

    Sounds like this is an issue between mother, child and no one else. Everyone else should shut their traps, it is none of their business.

    Breastfeeding aside, Reason.com has a great editorial from last month mocking attachment parenting and advocating a more libertarian approach to parenting…

    http://reason.com/archives/2012/04/29/why-i-mock-attachment-parenting-and-the

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    • junior1971
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:08pm

      Hey bruce, It’s on the cover of time magazine! Who’s business is it again? Go back to your protest and throw some bricks or bust some glass already!

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    • feddup
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:12pm

      As soon as she agreed to be on Time’s cover, she gave us all the right to comment on her. By the way, when they’re old enough to ask for it — it’s time to cut them off of breast milk.

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    • piiguissa
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 3:24pm

      @ FEDUP, the sad thing about a child being old enough, is when we think it’s ok to show our kids the “cute” budweiser commercials with frogs and all…so cute, and the commercial is promoting beer, cause for a lot of accidents, death, families destruction, emotional problems for everyone around an alcohoolic etc.. My whole family has been scared and damaged, traumatized by ONE alcohoolic.
      How about de Dos xx comercials? Teenagers love them! They are funny but let’s not forget they promote a destructive behavior. And we are fussing about breastfeeding causing emotional scar on that young boy? We have far more issues to be upset about.

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 7:40pm

      JUNIOR — please, tell me where I made a statement supporting Occupy or rioting. Did you not see the article I posted for a LIBERTARIAN site? Oh, but I get it, supporting a mother’s right to raise their child as she sees fit, that’s a communist ploy, right?

      Funny, you “small government” conservatives claim you are about parents being able to raise their children as they want, until it conflicts with your views. Then you want the government to step in.

      Morons.

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  • mrsmileyface
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:50pm

    There isnt anything redeming about the cover photo. It borders on pornography. And isnt even provocotive its just sick. Proving once again Time and Newsweak alike are pretty much done as bastions of journalism.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:50pm

    Who is getting nurtured here? The kid is headed for a world of hurt because some selfish woman needs to be nurtured herself. Give the kid some food. There is plenty in this country. You are not in Bangladesh.

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  • Popp40
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:49pm

    She is just looking for attention….her new 15 minutes of fame….check out this article….it hits the nail on the head.

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  • blackyb
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:46pm

    Somehow I think that is perversion. The kid was old enough for a steak.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:15pm

      Hope he bites her nipple off…Now that would be funny.

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  • feddup
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:45pm

    “When I asked him if he would also like to breastfeed he smiled and jumped right on my lap.”

    I would too.

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    • Welcome Black Carter
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 5:46pm

      “Self weaning”
      Really? I‘m betting he won’t give up the teat until it‘s it’s taken away. Just like welfare queens…

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  • On The Bayou
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:45pm

    Good chance she didn`t have twins

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  • misteryuck
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:44pm

    What’s best for the baby (almost 4!)!?!?!?

    Are you kidding me? How ’bout cheap publicity for the mom? Got a book coming out soon?
    I don’t have a problem with breastfeeding, however, if it is done for the BEST for the “baby”, then it should be a private mother-baby thing, not on the front page of some mag….

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    • piiguissa
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 5:02pm

      I desagree! We need to promote breast feeding in this country more than we promote beer and irresponsible sex, because is becoming a rare thing. Culture is turning it into something offensive making women hide in bathrooms to feed. Breast feeding has turned into something that needs to be hidden because is offensive if done in public. The result is less women breastfeeding and the few who do, only do it for 6 months or less. Breast milk is THE BEST thing for babies and no formula is the same as breast milk. The bond between mother child during breastfeeding is fundamental. Maybe after 1 year a child is too old, but they like it because they feel safe and loved. It’s more than just feeding. I wouldn’t do it after 1 year, and yes it’s kinda weird, but i know mothers who do and the children like it so much it’s hard to cut them off.

      I really wish people would have the same attitude of outrage about casual sex. Sex should be something private and responsible, but we promote it on tv/magazines all day long… shows like two and half man…not only promotes using women as sexual objects and glamorizes trashy behavior but they had a child actor in it…where’s the outrage about that?

      Everyone is concerned about the child in the magazine but how about the child in 2 and half men a show promoting drinking, sleeping around, cheating etc. Our culture said it‘s ok so it’s ok.

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  • thriceconcussed
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:38pm

    This is sick.

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:51pm

      Agree … her son is most likely scarred for life .. he may not know it for years .. wait until he is in high school or college and people pull up this cover .

      I prefer the one Rush did yesterday … soon to be a classic!

      http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/05/10/we_ve_improved_on_time_s_new_cover

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    • johnjamison
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:51pm

      A 6 year old breast feeding is sick and is close to child porn.

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    • Bruce P.
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:51pm

      What is sick? Attachment parenting or breastfeeding? Agree if the former, disagree if the latter.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:01pm

      What is sick is having sex with your mate while the children are sharing the bed. IMO, kids should be weaned at around 18 months. Anything beyond that and it seems that the mother has issues letting go.

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    • RestoreCapitalism
      Posted on May 13, 2012 at 1:52pm

      It is absolutely sick. So I guess instead of weaning a child, you just wait until he says ‘Mom, all the other kids at school are making fun of me’, and I‘m afraid my professors won’t recommend me for a college scholarship’.

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  • IMCHRISTIAN
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:36pm

    Well, if they didn’t think that explains it all. The parents were not ready to parent and the Time‘s isn’t worthy of new subscribers.

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  • blanco5
    Posted on May 11, 2012 at 12:35pm

    I have to applaud time for their successful attempt at distraction as well as selling magazines. This is the ONLY way to bump up readership from 9 to 10. Good job!

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    • Athinkerinaseaoflibs
      Posted on May 11, 2012 at 1:56pm

      Please, no more diversions! There is no question that the best for the child is to be breast feed in so many ways that it could not be covered in 1500 characters or 15 million. We should never be offended by such acts of love and kindness. But all the time that is wasted on this in Victorian outrage is keeping us away from the real problems in our society. Why doesn’t Time have a cover with all the people in this country suckling the government’s teats for all they can get? Now that’s outrageous. Oh that would offend the sensibilities of people who matter–the liberal.

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