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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.