The Time cover and our mom anxieties |
Emily Esfahani Smith |
So Time really wanted to sell some magazines. Can you imagine an image more provocative than a three-year-old child with his mouth around the nipple of his young, fit, attractive 26-year-old mother --- or at least an image that's that provocative without also being straight up pornographic?
The picture captures a whole range of hotly controversial topics, from public breastfeeding, to attachment parenting, to incest, to the arrested development of kids these days. But what's truly revealing about Time's cover, and the controversy surrounding it, is not the age of the child. It's our culture's growing anxieties about moms and motherhood. Showing off that you're a mom or that your body is preparing to become one is taboo. |
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Victor Cuvo, Attorney at Law
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