I think TIME mag is anti-AP

3003girl

I just read this article on TIME:  https://healthland.time.com/2012/05/23/are-vaccines-safe-a-major-media-outlets-specious-story-fans-the-debate/#ixzz1vhHqvA7X

and was kind of shocked at this paragraph:

?Discovery took down the article tonight = good things happen when smart people band together to support science!? e-mailed Amy Pisani, executive director of Every Child by Two, a vaccine-advocacy organization that learned about the article from a group of mothers who practice attachment parenting (the subject of TIME magazine?s ?bercontroversial cover story earlier this month). The mothers, according to Pisani, were shunned from their online attachment-parenting group because they vaccinated their children."

First of all, what does it have to do with the article at all? 

Secondly, have you ever heard of an AP group being so anti-vax that they would "shun" parents from the group? I actually think most people, esp  here, are pro-vax, and in the other AP groups I am in it's not even an issue. In fact, I don't think it's ever been brought up, except once when someone wanted a pedi referral who was fine with an alt. schedule.  

Like I said in the title, it leads me to believe someone at TIME is uber-anti-AP.  

anna7602

I've never been part of an AP group IRL, but based on being part of this board the last 4 years, it sounds very, very odd to me that an AP group would reject someone for vaccinating. Or really, reject anyone at all. What I've seen from this board is that there's no hard & fast rule for what constitutes AP aside from following your instincts as a mom and trying to do right by your baby/child. Rejecting someone for vaccinating sounds as ridiculous to me as rejecting someone for getting an epidural or for formula feeding or for having a crib or for using a stroller, all things I know for a fact a significant number of members on this board have done/do.

LouiseB2001

Speaking of the TIME article have you seen the great interviews with the AP moms featured in it over at kellymom?

https://kellymom.com/blog-post/time-apmoms-interview/ 

JasmineCapri

LouiseB2001:

Speaking of the TIME article have you seen the great interviews with the AP moms featured in it over at kellymom?

https://kellymom.com/blog-post/time-apmoms-interview/ 

 

Great article! Thanks for sharing