The controversial cover of the May issue of Time Magazine featuring an image of a 26-year-old California mother breastfeeding her 3-year-old son had conversations swirling on television, radio and social media.

The caption, “Are you Mom Enough?” has caused a controversy that is sure to go on for a long time to come. The article itself, titled “The Man who remade Motherhood” is about Dr. William Sears and his style of parenting commonly referred to as “attachment parenting.”

In a world where, sadly, there are so many parents who simply don’t parent at all, shouldn’t we support the moms who are working hard to raise their children no matter what their particular “style” is?  Isn’t it more important that a mom decides to love and support her children than for her to feel compelled to breast feed and share a bed with them?

However, many mothers do feel offended after seeing this. The article implies how different mothers raise their children. The fact that they ask “are you mom enough?” has made feel some mothers as if they are being judged in the way they raised their children.

However, even when the magazine replies to all the critics they say that every parent asks themselves: how they’re doing in terms of parenting their child, and that gets to a debate that kind of exists within every parent.

I do think we all ask ourselves how we are doing our job. In my opinion, being a parent must be the hardest and most amazing job

On the other hand, I do not think that Time Magazine should put a question like that in their cover. By doing so, they do not make parents question if they could improve as a parent. On the opposite, they just create a feeling of anger because they may feel judged by someone who wrote an article and believes that is the right way of raising children.

Zazoo Commercial

The Belgium company Zazoo made a commercial advertising condoms. However, I do think it is a shocking commercial. In my opinion, it can be really funny for many people, but at the same time you do get surprised when you realize what the commercial is about. This commercial got banned in some places. However, its popularity keeps increasing until now. Zazoo released this commercial in Dutch and French before adding English subtitles to appeal to a wider audience in 2006.

This commercial has a psycho graphic segmentation basis, it makes consumers think about their lifestyle and their self-values, showing them how a child affects a man’s life. This commercial target’s market are men that are not ready to have children. They do this to show it in a funny way but many people have found it shocking and some parents do think it is not quite true or ethical to put out this kind of commercials.

This commercial has a very drastic way of marketing. May people agree that using fear in marketing is not ethic, but many people disagree as well. The value added by this commercial is, however, that people should have safe sex. I think it is targeted mostly to teenagers. Most teenagers are not ready for the responsibility of being parents. Therefore, what this commercial is trying to show, is that we do have to be conscious about it and prevent an unexpected pregnancy if we are not ready to deal with everything that will come along with a child.

Having children is a difficult task, and people should be sure that they want to have a family before having any unprotected sex.

Even though some people do leave comments on the video saying that they found this offensive, fear has been used in marketing in many different situations by many different companies. Therefore, I do not see anything bad with this commercial because what they are trying to say is that having sex without protection may lead to pregnancy, and if you are not ready to have children yet, just do not do it.