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Originally Posted by 944Larry
Hit the nail on the head here Mike. I can't for the life of me see why people would get bent out of shape over breast feeding a baby. Little guys have got to eat when they're hungry. As far as this guy in the picture as being "too old", that ain't my kid or my wife. She can do what she wants. Americans have got to where they gripe about anything. Makes us look like a bunch of dummies at times.
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I'll chime in with two counterpoints.
1) My first reaction was "what if that picture had shown the woman breastfeeding a little girl the same age?" I never see this issue debated on the subject of raising girls.
2) Child-rearing is not gardening, where you're raising something solely for your own consumption. The role of a parent is to raise an independent, self-sufficient adult capable of working, learning, and otherwise interacting with a broad spectrum of humanity for the next 60-something years, not just
YOU, and not just
NOW.
The world is a meat grinder, and a breast-fed 6 year-old strikes me as veal.