Time Magazine's Breastfeeding Cover Photo Goes Viral

Time Magazine's breastfeeding cover photo goes viral

Time Magazine's Provocative New Cover Image




 

Jamie Lynne Grumet poses with her 3-year-old son for the cover of Time magazine. / Martin Schoeller/Time magazine By Natalie DiBlasio Social media are buzzing about the provocative Time magazine cover showing a Los Angeles mother breast-feeding her

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.

In the article, Pickert explores who Sears is and why controversy surrounds his theories -- specifically baby-wearing, extended breastfeeding and co-sleeping -- but it's TIME's photographs of real mothers breastfeeding their toddlers that has everyone talking
There is no doubt that the TIME cover strikes the public as shocking. But, as Pickert points out, the women featured are at one extreme end of this always-controversial discussion. On the other end, she says, are mothers who "endorse the idea of maternal closeness (who doesn't?) but think Sears is out of his mind." And the writer goes on: