{"id":255958,"date":"2018-03-01T11:34:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T16:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=255958"},"modified":"2021-04-16T10:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T14:43:39","slug":"india-breastfeeding-magazine-cover-ignites-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/india-breastfeeding-magazine-cover-ignites-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"India breastfeeding magazine cover ignites debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The most beautiful and natural image possible and it\u2019s a shame that some people, contaminated by Christian puritanism, think it should be forbidden in public. Besides that, it\u2019s the most important thing to make sure the babies have a strong immune system.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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An Indian magazine that published a picture of a model breastfeeding a baby as its cover photo has sharply divided opinion on social media.<\/p>\n

The cover of Grihalakshmi, which is published in Kerala state, depicts model Gilu Joseph staring straight into the camera with a baby at her chest.<\/p>\n

The text above reads “Moms tell Kerala – don’t stare, we want to breastfeed”.<\/p>\n

This is thought to be the first time an Indian magazine has published a cover image of a woman breastfeeding.<\/p>\n

But the fact that the model is not herself a mother has caused some discomfort and generated debate.<\/p>\n

Grihalakshmi’s editor said the magazine wanted to raise awareness about the need for mothers to be able to breastfeed in public.<\/p>\n

“A month ago, a man shared a picture of his wife breastfeeding on Facebook to start a conversation about letting mothers feed in public spaces. But the result was that the woman was subjected to cyber-bullying from both men and women,” Moncy Joseph told the BBC’s Ashraf Padanna<\/p>\n

Meet the woman behind the breastfeeding emoji’ Why I gave my baby another woman’s breast milk’<\/p>\n

‘Why I gave my baby another woman’s breast milk’<\/p>\n

Breastfeeding mother sells milk on street<\/p>\n

“That is why we decided to dedicate our latest issue to breastfeeding mothers.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-43238253<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: The most beautiful and natural image possible and it\u2019s a shame that some people, contaminated by Christian puritanism, think it should be forbidden in public. Besides that, it\u2019s the most important thing to make sure the babies have a strong immune system.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":327626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}