Letters to the Editor
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More like the worst of times....
This activity seems more about the mother than the boy. Maybe he needs to wean her off of him. I don't have children so my feeling may be a function of this; but I find it weird that a child who can walk, talk, and heck, even go to school, is breastfed. The author points out that she no longer produces any real milk. So other than for nutritional needs, what purpose is the breast serving here? Aren't there other less controversial night-time rituals that she and her son can engage in? But then again if that were the case, she wouldn't have had an edge in the publishing of her article.
On that note, I'm missing the Salon I first discovered, back in '99, more and more. It's gone downhill with the level of writing and types of articles published. Thankfully we haven't seen much from Ayelet Waldman lately. Maybe these two mommies can get together and compare notes (just please don't publish them here!) instead of subjecting the rest of us to their navel-gazing. But then again, maybe Ms. Waldman operates under a pen name these days given the immense amount of negative responses her articles generate. In any case, Salon just ain't what it used to be.