[MThanded]

This is not a hoax. Kids are still breastfeeding according to this TIME page.

The subjects on this week’s TIME cover aren’t models in pose. Jamie Lynne Grumet, photographed by Martin Schoeller with her 3-year-old son, is a mother from Los Angeles who subscribes to attachment parenting, the subject of staff writer Kate Pickert’s cover story. Attachment parenting has been on the rise over the last two decades, since the publication of The Baby Book by Dr. Bill Sears and his wife, Martha, in 1992. Its three main tenets are extended breast-feeding, co-sleeping and “baby wearing,” in which infants are physically attached to their parents by slings. In one day, Schoeller photographed four families from across the country who practice this method of motherhood. Using religious images of the Madonna and Child as reference, Schoeller captured each mother breast-feeding her child or children. “When you think of breast-feeding, you think of mothers holding their children, which was impossible with some of these older kids,” Schoeller says. “I liked the idea of having the kids standing up to underline the point that this was an uncommon situation.” The four mothers photographed by Schoeller were all familiar with The Baby Book, but adopted the parenting philosophy for their own reasons. For Grumet, the decision was a natural extension of how she’d been raised; she was the daughter of attached parents and her older sister also practices the method as well. “I grew up this way and never thought about raising my kids differently,” she says. While pregnant, Dionna Ford, who lives in Kansas City, Mo., watched a video of a British woman breastfeeding her 7-year-old daughter. Ford thought she could never do the same—until she discovered how difficult it was to wean her own son off breast milk. “After six months, I decided I’d wait until he turned 1,” she says. “But after my baby turned a year old, he was still a baby—not talking, barely walking—and I wondered why I’d stop now.” Capturing various attached parents—and their reasons for attachment parenting—was Schoeller’s biggest goal for the sitting. “It was important to show that there’s no stereotypical look for a mom who practices this kind of parenting,” Schoeller says.

Read more: http://lightbox.time.com/2012/05/10/...#ixzz1uTzpFqSC <- more at this link. They did a whole photoshoot with other mothers too.

[Izick]

[CrazyDude]

Uhhuh.

I don't which is worse, the U.S cover or the South Pacific cover.

[Alucrid]

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/IFRq1.jpg[IMG] Uhhuh.

America finally gets the exclusive controversial issue.

[coldvein]

Uhhuh.

amazing.

[Alucrid]

Basically be on his locker throughout junior high and high school, and a mandatory awkward conversation in every serious relationship he is going to have.

"what do you mean why is there no milk coming out?"

[LiK]

can't wait til he's 30 and still sucking them boobs.

[Speedymanic]

Eh, I was breastfed until I was 4. I don't see the problem.

[F#A#Oo]

Hmm...not sure it's weird till you hit 5 years old maybe 6...

[Mr. B Natural]

That is the biggest three year old I've ever seen.

[CrazyDude]

Eh, I was breastfed until I was 4. I don't see the problem.

I see plenty of problems with you.

[Zekes!]

Yes I am jelly

[DonasaurusRex]

that is the ultimate UMAD? pic

[Mr. B Natural]

Hmm...not sure it's weird till you hit 5 years old maybe 6...

It's weird once the kid can say "Hey, ma, I want some titty."

[Glass Rebel]

he is going to be a pervert when he is 10

I can already see the headlines in 2013.

[Cat Party]

Just occurred to me the title should say "Suck it, Newsweek."

[Alucrid]

Eh, I was breastfed until I was 4. I don't see the problem.

[JoeTheBlow]

Eh, I was breastfed until I was 4. I don't see the problem.

Did you do it on the cover of a magazine?

[sixteen-bit]

That picture is gonna haunt that kid for the rest of his life.

You think so?

[sephi22]

Uh... googling that woman brings up her Facebook page. And that kid looks nothing like the ones in her photos

[Angry Fork]

Uhhuh.

rofl ugh I thought Time would have learned by now.

[daycru]

Luckiest kid ever.

[Futureman]

what is funny about the 4 different covers?

OMG DIFFERENT COVERAGE IN DIFFERENT REGIONS SO FUNNY LOL

[Speedymanic]

I see plenty of problems with you.

Uncalled for dude.

lol.

Did you do it on the cover of a magazine?

Obvs not, but it's not that big of a deal and happens a lot more than people realize. I doubt people will taunt him in a few years, it will forgotten about within a couple of months.

[SimleuqiR]

So thought early Americans upon arriving and seeing natives breast feeding up to age 10(or 12...memory might be failing).

10, 12? I was already fapping at that age!! That's way too old IMHO.

[hsin]

Uhhuh.

Interesting how Asia didn't retouch the photo.

[CrazyDude]

Uh... googling that woman brings up her Facebook page. And that kid looks nothing like the ones in her photos

Congratulations Gaf, you have uncovered a secret child porn operation.

[Alucrid]

Uh... googling that woman brings up her Facebook page. And that kid looks nothing like the ones in her photos

Well uh..if I google my name I'm a Catholic priest

[LiK]

Eh, I was breastfed until I was 4. I don't see the problem.

serious question, do you remember what your mom's boobs look like?

[Volimar]

I can't imagine a less natural position for breastfeeding. I'm thinking that the pose itself adds about 40% of the creepiness.

[distantmantra]

My wife exclusively breastfeeds our 3 month old daughter (will introduce solids at the appropriate time). We've both agreed that once she's talking, we're done breastfeeding.

[yogloo]

NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM.
Mom is hot.

[Angry Fork]

what is funny about the 4 different covers? OMG DIFFERENT COVERAGE IN DIFFERENT REGIONS SO FUNNY LOL

People laugh when Time thinks Americans aren't interested in much more important stories going on in the world so they dumb down their covers. It's a laugh of frustration/pity. Not sure how you can't see that.

[teruterubozu]

I can't imagine a less natural position for breastfeeding. I'm thinking that the pose itself adds about 40% of the creepiness.

Makes me wonder what happens if he slips off the chair while chomping on momma's tatas.

[Speedymanic]

serious question, do you remember what your mom's boobs look like?

I honestly don't, it's not something I tend to think about.

[ConfusingJazz]

what is funny about the 4 different covers? OMG DIFFERENT COVERAGE IN DIFFERENT REGIONS SO FUNNY LOL

Because one is something for a boring week, and one is for a rather important election result that signals a change of course in the Eurozone Crisis.

[Alucrid]

Because one is something for a boring week, and one is for a rather important election result that signals a change of course in the Eurozone Crisis.

America is over change, we're all about breasts now

[LiK]

I honestly don't, it's not something I tend to think about.

ok, I was curious about that.

reading that another mom is still breastfeeding her 7yo daughter is kinda crazy.

[Kaizer]

Looks insane too me.

[Sickboy007]

[sephi22]

Congratulations Gaf, you have uncovered a secret child porn operation.

Well uh..if I google my name I'm a Catholic priest

Actually it is him. Just looks a lot younger.

[ConfusingJazz]

That mom is probably the one that tries to ban dodgeball and shit.

[Speedymanic]

ok, I was curious about that. reading that another mom is still breastfeeding her 7yo daughter is kinda crazy.

7 years old? Not that I'm one to judge, but wow...my mum stopped after I hit 4 because it was starting to take its toll on her...can't imagine what it must be like to be breastfeeding a 7YO.

Nipples of steel on that mum, yo.

[Goldrusher]

Why even have different issues ? Isn't TIME an American magazine ? And they're all in English anyway.

[Patrick Bateman]

I'd love to suck on that tit, too.

[MThanded]

Why even have different issues ? Isn't TIME an American magazine ? And they're all in English anyway.

Different articles

[ShinobiFist]

I see no beef with this...

[dc89]

UK-GAF will probably get this picture:

[ConfusingJazz]

Why even have different issues ? Isn't TIME an American magazine ? And they're all in English anyway.

Its an American owned magazine, but its published globally. You have regional stories for regional markets.

And yes, they're in English, but there are enough English speakers in the world that they can sell them everywhere, especially in Europe.

[Spiffy_1st]

I always feel bad for the kids in things like this. Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Bart was baby stink breath? People have to go through situations like that all the time.

Imagine your birth being shown on Teen Mom or whatever that MTV show is. Ugh.