Woman breastfeeding her 3-year-old son is the cover photo of this week's Time magazine. |
Shocking or no big deal? A woman breastfeeding her 3-year-old son is the cover photo of this week's Time magazine for a story on "attachment parenting," and reactions ranged from applause to cringing to shrugs. The photo showed Jamie Lynne Grumet, 26, a stay-at-home mom in Los Angeles who says her mother breastfed her until she was 6 years old. She told the magazine in an interview that she's given up reasoning with strangers who see her son nursing and threaten "to call social services on me or that it's child molestation." "People have to realize this is biologically normal," she said, adding, "The more people see it, the more it'll become normal in our culture. That's what I'm hoping. I want people to see it." Some questioned why the magazine used the photo of Grumet, a slim blonde pretty enough to be a model, to illustrate a story about a style of childrearing that's been around for a generation. The issue includes a profile of the attachment parenting guru, Dr. Bill Sears, who wrote one of the movement's bibles, "The Baby Book," 20 years ago. Mika Brzezisnki, co-host of MSNBC's weekday morning program "Morning Joe," suggested on the air that the cover was needlessly sensational: "I'll tell you why it bothers me — because it's a profile of Bill Sears!" On Twitter, the cover inspired X-rated jokes along with concerns that the child might be teased when he's older. But on many message boards, there was debate about whether it's OK to breastfeed beyond babyhood. Bobbi Miller, a mother of six who lives in Arkansas, expressed disapproval in a tweet and said in a phone interview, "Even a cow knows when to wean their child." Of the cover, she said: "Why would this even be out there? It's ludicrous. It's almost on the verge of voyeurism." But Bettina Forbes, co-founder of an organization called Best for Babes that promotes breastfeeding and supports women who want to nurse their children beyond babyhood, said she hopes the cover "will make mainstream America less squeamish" about women breastfeeding children of any age. "It's high time we talk about these things," she said. Reaction to the cover underscored a cultural rift between traditional childrearing and what some have deemed "extreme parenting." The attachment philosophy encourages mothers to respond to their babies' every cry and form close bonds with near-constant physical contact through "co-sleeping" (letting them sleep in the bed with parents rather than in cribs) and "baby-wearing" (carrying them on slings instead of pushing them in strollers). (Read by Brian Salter. Brian Salter is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
感到震驚還是覺得沒什么大不了?本周《時(shí)代》雜志的封面照片是一位正在給3歲的兒子喂母乳的女性,講述了有關(guān)“親密育兒法”的故事。封面引發(fā)強(qiáng)烈反響,有人擊掌叫好,也有人極為反感。 封面照上的人物是26歲的杰米-林恩-格魯梅特,她住在洛杉磯,是一位全職媽媽。她說自己吃母乳吃到六歲。她告訴該雜志,有些陌生人看到她母乳喂養(yǎng),還威脅“向社會(huì)福利機(jī)構(gòu)舉報(bào)”,說這是“兒童性騷擾”,但她已經(jīng)懶得做出解釋。 她說:“人們應(yīng)該認(rèn)識(shí)到,這是生理上的正?,F(xiàn)象。這種現(xiàn)象越常見,在我們的文化中就越正常。這正是我所希望的,我希望人們看到它?!?/p> 有些人質(zhì)疑為什么雜志使用格魯梅特的照片來詮釋這種已經(jīng)持續(xù)了一個(gè)世代的育兒方式,因?yàn)樗莻€(gè)苗條的金發(fā)美女,足以成為模特。這期雜志還介紹了“親密育兒法”的大師比爾-西爾斯博士。他在20年前出版了論述這種育兒方式的權(quán)威著作《親密育兒百科》。 美國(guó)全國(guó)廣播公司工作日早間節(jié)目《早安,喬伊》的搭檔主持米卡?布熱津斯基在廣播中宣稱這種封面是沒有意義的煽情。她說:“我會(huì)告訴你們?yōu)槭裁次矣憛捤驗(yàn)檫@是在說比爾-西爾斯!” 有人在推特上也拿這期封面開起了限制級(jí)玩笑,也有人擔(dān)心封面上的兒童長(zhǎng)大后會(huì)因此被嘲笑。嬰兒期過后是否還可以哺乳的問題在眾多留言板上激起熱議。 阿肯色州一位六歲孩子的母親鮑比-米勒在推特上表達(dá)了反對(duì)意見,她在電話采訪中說:“哪怕是母牛都知道什么時(shí)候該斷奶了。”談到封面時(shí),她說:“為什么還會(huì)刊登這種照片?這太荒唐了,和性騷擾差不多。” 但貝蒂娜-福布斯說,她希望這期封面會(huì)讓主流的美國(guó)大眾對(duì)母親給多大的孩子母乳喂養(yǎng)不要太“神經(jīng)質(zhì)”。她說:“是時(shí)候我們?cè)撚懻撚懻撨@些事情了。”她是促進(jìn)母乳喂養(yǎng)的組織“為了孩子好”的創(chuàng)辦人之一,該組織支持那些在嬰兒期后仍給孩子母乳喂養(yǎng)的女性。 對(duì)封面的反應(yīng)讓人們看到了傳統(tǒng)育兒方式和有些人眼中的“極端育兒法”之間的文化裂痕。親密育兒法鼓勵(lì)母親們對(duì)寶寶的每次哭喊都做出回應(yīng),通過頻繁的親密身體接觸建立親子關(guān)系,比如讓孩子和父母“同睡”在一張床上,而不是睡在嬰兒床里,或者用嬰兒背帶抱孩子,而不是用嬰兒車推著他們。 相關(guān)閱讀 韓星Rain領(lǐng)跑《時(shí)代》最具影響力人物榜 歐盟:產(chǎn)婦每天應(yīng)有兩小時(shí)哺乳假 (中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)英語點(diǎn)津 Julie 編輯:陳丹妮) |
Vocabulary: molestation: 性騷擾 X-rated: 限成人觀看的,色情的,淫穢的 voyeurism: 窺淫癖,性騷擾 squeamish: 神經(jīng)質(zhì)的,易生氣的 |