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Originally Posted by epbrown
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.
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Agree on point 1. On point 2 I don't know if breast feeding a longer time affects a child adversely or not. May be some research out there although I doubt it, too politically incorrect. My main thoughts were that people come out of the woodwork and raise all kinds of hell about it and it seems like a natural process to me. I hardly ever see it being done publicly (altough it was quite open when I worked in Africa) so it seems like a non-issue. I agree this picture was to help magazine sales.