Commentary from the web and around about the Time Magazine article about attachment parenting.

Helaine Olen: "What I am against is economic elitism in the disguise of optimal parenting. And make no mistake, when someone tells you to go borrow the bucks so you can be the best possible mom you can be, that’s exactly what is going on."

Ask Moxie: "We are too busy parenting our own kids to get all riled up about some hackneyed feud with other parents that you're making up to sell copies."

Lisa Belkin:  I am not Mom enough to take the bait. To accept TIME's deliberate provocation and either get mad at this woman for what I think I know about her from this photo, or to feel inferior, or superior, or defensive, or guilty — or anything at all, if it means I am comparing myself to other mothers.

KJ Dell'Antonia: What do you mean by “mom enough,” Time magazine? What is enough? We don’t know what “mom enough” is — probably because it changes from child to child and day to day and year to year. For some of us, it’s the choice between staying home, working, and some compromise. For others, it’s between WIC and food stamps. “Enough” has whole lot of variables besides slings versus strollers.

Mary Elizabeth Williams: The entire Time cover story is framed in a way to make the viewer be simultaneously repulsed and aroused. Congratulations, editors. You’ve added to our already rampant cultural dismissal of motherhood as a kooky cult. And you’ve made a venerable news magazine one big hate bang.