Covers of books, redux

[walkitout]

Robert Karen's book on Attachment (0195115015) and Sroufe's book (0521629926) have covers
with airborne babies (Karen's all the way airborne; Sroufe's being lifted high in the air by a mama).

This is bizarre. It's right up there with that evil book I mentioned months ago (0838576656 -- discussed on May 10, 2005. Took a while to find that post. That would be the book about birth that completely erases the mother. And I do mean completely.). Why would, not one, but _two_ books about attachment depict a baby being held up/thrown up into the air? This is _not_ something that one does to a baby most days (I don't think, anyway). Sure, exciting fun, but not primary caregiver exciting fun. More like, energetic non-parent exciting fun.

What the fuck.

Someone please explain this to me.

Comments

For the record

[walkitout]

Zero to Three, an organization that firmly believes that Attachment is Good and has all sorts of guidelines for raising young 'uns is modestly opposed to baby-tossing:

http://www.americanbaby.com/ab/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/ab/story/data/AB0904TossingBaby_10012004.xml&catref=cat4490014

Re: For the record

[walkitout]

http://www.dontshake.com/Audience.aspx?categoryID=8&PageName=RelationshipSBS_Play.htm

Who knew that so many people had issued official statements on baby tossing?
These ones are at pains to note that baby tossing does _not_ cause Shaken Baby Syndrome, and are trying to get propaganda about SBS to stop saying it
can.