From the What The Fuck?! department

[annuin]

http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2003-04-24/buzz.html/1/index.html

"The state of Texas, in its all-too-finite wisdom, has bowed to eons of mammalian evolution and decided that breast-feeding your child is not a sign of unfit parenting.

This is particularly good news for Jacqueline Mercado and her boyfriend, Johnny Fernandez, who have regained custody of their 1-year-old son Rodrigo. Last week, Dallas Observer staff writer Thomas Korosec reported ("1-Hour Arrest") how Mercado and Fernandez ran afoul of the law for the dastardly act of taking a photo of their boy suckling at Mercado's breast. Last fall, the couple had the photos developed at a local drug store. A clerk there saw the image and called Richardson police. Long story short: Mercado and Fernandez wound up indicted for "sexual performance of a child" (though the case was later dropped by Dallas County prosecutors), and Child Protective Services took away their two children and ordered all sorts of onerous counseling and tests."

Someone needs to smack the sense into law enforcement and the DA's office over there. Morons.

Comments

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

And Janet Jackson's breast gets exposed amidst a veritable orgy of socially sanctioned violence and crass commercialism (including all the ads for underwear, body lotion, and erectile dysfunction medications), and people freak at her boob.

If I had a kid, society be damned - it's feed on demand and damned if I'm going to be ashamed of it.

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[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Well, if in a public place I'm not going to be brazen about the breast feeding. However, the fact that these people got their kids taken away because some uptight photobooth clerk couldn't deal with a home snapshot of a breastfeeding child, then something is really out of whack.

Seriously, what the hell else do they think breasts are for?