>do you suppose it will be acceptable because this is actually a woman from >EUROPE and she is a REFUGEE so it is OK??? You bet. As I recall, *the same week* that TIME ran an article about Deborah Norville's scandalous (but perfectly discreet) nursing picture, it had a picture of an African woman, probably a refugee, surrounded by all her meager possessions and nursing her baby with totally exposed breast. If the woman is black, homeless, third world... then it's okay (and even advantageous) to show her breastfeeding. If she's upper class it's a scandal. Here's my letter to TIME: Perhaps you meant your cover to epitomize the deprivation and displacement of Albanian mothers and children. What it shows instead is a woman with much to worry about, but not where her child's food will come from, a woman who is producing a product with a value of about $60 a day, and whose child, if s/he is more than a few weeks old, has a better diet and better disease protection than most American children of the same age. This woman is not weakness. She is strength. Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC feeling huffy in Ithaca, NY *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html