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Four years ago, the Times ran an issue with the now infamous cover shoot of Jamie Lynn Grumlet nursing her three-year-old son-mother and child both standing 4-year old boy standing on a chair and staring into the camera, under the headline, “Are You Mom Enough?” And, although the cover story was accommodated under the term “attachment parenting,” it also triggers the mother-child-attachment through breastfeeding in a very nonmisogynistic way. When talking about when to put...

There was a time when Latin musicians were credited for “creating a stir” in American entertainment. In the mid-1990’s, the prominence of Selena provided a boost to the Hispanic music community. But the real Latin songs explosion came after the success of few handfuls of rising stars who shared Latin heritage such as Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez. Each of these singers became the bestselling artists and introduced Latin music to...