The cover of the new edition of Time magazine features a woman breastfeeding a nearly 4-year-old child — and the reaction has lit up the mommy blogs. We look at the philosophy and controversy of attachment parenting.
The attachment parenting movement encourages breastfeeding — sometimes for years — co-sleeping and wearing babies in slings. The popularity of attachment parenting in some communities has other women complaining that the high expectations of sacrifice for mothers are a backward step for feminism.
- More: Mommy Wars, Redux: Let’s Hope Not – from KQED’s State of Health blog