Sheesh
Why do people like this get charged with felonies? Sure, she was stupid, but if we make stupidity a felony there won’t be enough room in the U.S. for the jails we’d need.
And why in the hell is it the gummint’s business how long you nurse your kid? Note the cute double entendre headline. I guess it’s ok for the new head of DCF in Florida to advocate spanking hard enough to raise welts, but the woman in Illinois who breastfeeds her 8 year old 3 times a month is endangering him to the point that he needs to be in foster care.
The government needs to stay out of our homes. They have no right telling me how to raise my kids, that I need to drug my kids, how I have to feed (or not feed) my kids, what I can and can’t teach my kids, what color my kids’ hair is, and how I am allowed to make babies. Next stop: everything but the missionary position is outlawed.
What Karyn from SaveKaryn.com looks like. This is the face of the beggar of the 00’s.
I’m sorry, but eating a chocolate Jesus is just too disconcerting.
Interestingly, 3 of the Fort Bragg soldiers who killed their wives this summer were taking the same anti-malarial drug.
More proof that Donahue’s an assshole.
Are you a diamond in the rough? These people seem to think so.
August 21st, 2002 at 10:47 pm
I agree about the women charged with the felony for the sunburned kids. The idea of a mother nursing her 8 year old kid, though, raises red flags.
August 21st, 2002 at 10:50 pm
Granted it’s not something I would do myself, but I’m at a loss to see where foster care and criminal charges are necessary.
August 21st, 2002 at 10:57 pm
dude. she admits she doesn’t even KNOW if she’s producing milk anymore?! come on. she sounds like a perv to me.
my eight year-old gets love from me through hugs and praise, and quality time. he is not permitted anywhere near my naked breasts, and that’s the way it should be.
i can see nursing until MAYBE three years old as not totally unreasonable for some people. i myself wouldn’t be comfortable with it morally past maybe 18 months. of course i only have the stamina to last until they get teeth 🙂
August 22nd, 2002 at 12:27 am
Interestingly enuff, regarding that Malaria medication, a soldier here in NM was discharged for refusing to take that medication! Smart man. BTW, his wife is still alive.
August 22nd, 2002 at 11:03 pm
If you’re old enough to ask for breast milk, you’re too old to be breastfed.
August 22nd, 2002 at 11:28 pm
Nah, my 10 month old was asking to nurse, and that’s certainly not too old. You can’t set any hard and fast rules about how long to breastfeed – some say you should stop when babies get teeth. What about the kids that are born with teeth? or get them at 3 weeks? Happens frequently.
My point wasn’t to make a judgement call on the woman for how long she breastfeeds, but rather I’m making a judgement call on the law enforcement officers who took the kid to foster care because of it. Compared with hitting a child hard enough to raise welts, extended breastfeeding is pretty damned minor.
August 26th, 2002 at 8:56 am
If you look at it that way “If you’re old enough to ask for breast milk, you’re too old to be breastfed.” then those poor kids that are advanced for their age are missing out. My comfort level is 3, but since extended breastfeeding has many wonderful advantages for mother and child and is completely natural..who knows.
“I’m making a judgement call on the law enforcement officers who took the kid to foster care because of it. Compared with hitting a child hard enough to raise welts, extended breastfeeding is pretty damned minor” **applauds**
October 14th, 2002 at 1:57 am
I think people who donate to Karyn should instead donate to Morty at SaveTheCEO.com. A CEO needs $1,000,000 to move his factory to Mexico. Hey, at least you get a laugh for your buck!
August 21st, 2003 at 2:06 am
Hi,
I find your this post of yours after searching for information on abusive breastfeeding. While this term may seem like an oxymoron, I can tell you from personal experience that it does, in fact, happen. I am an adult female who was nursed as an infant. I was probably weaned around age 1 or so. However, when I was about 3, my mother would want me to suck on her breasts (which, much like this mother’s, were not producing milk) like a baby, and allow me to fondle her breasts and talk about them. Now, as an adult, I have memories of this that have been stowed away in my brain for so long, and were coming out in weird ways. For instance, I’ve been sexually attracted to women and most especially women’s breasts since I was a child, and am bisexual now as an adult. While I don’t think there are any hard-and-fast rules to what makes a person a certain sexual orientation, I’m fairly certain that it was this experience as a toddler that created this orientation in me. Also, I now have trouble relating to other women, and have intense phobias about female nudity, breasts, and sexuality.
I’ve read alot on this, just in order to come to terms with the fuckupness that happened to me (women can and do expereince sexual pleasure from nursing. Unfortunately, some women do take advantage of children for their own gratification this way, as I’m sure this woman and my mother did), and I’m kind of sick of hearing that breastfeeding older children is natural and healthy, and having children “talk about the breast milk’s taste” etc. is the “best part of breastfeeding” (I read that at naturalchild.com, which is a crappy hippie site that tries to get parents to think children can miraculously wean and toilet train themselves). Breasts are unfortunately oversexualized in our culture, but I don’t think that breasts are completely devoid of sexuality and are therefore suitable to be offered to children as toys or security blankets when they are old enough to remember. I’m honestly scarred by the visuals I remember from my childhood, and its going to take me a long time to heal from it. I just wanted to make you aware of the other side of the story so that maybe you can understand. Female-to-female sexual abuse, and female molesters in general are rarely discussed or known about. There is alot of blindness in our society to these issues.
April 9th, 2005 at 1:34 pm
As a strong supporter of extended breastfeeding I really do not see anything wrong with a mother continuing to breastfeed her older child
(as long as she nurses the child in the comfort and privacy of their home and not in public). Why should any nursing mother be rushed into weaning their older child from breastfeeding?. As long as the mother and child are comfortable with it I would say to all nursing mothers… GO FOR IT!
Besides, it’s really no one’s business as to how long a mother breastfeeds her child!!.