They did this when I was a boy – my local paper does it as well, its also often done with cats / dogs / other pets, I find nothing sinister about it.
Keeps the bored housewives and broody girls/women happy… if anything its better than the former practice of actually parading babies/toddlers at village fetes etc which I think is a bit harsh on the kids who would probably rather play than be scrutinised, poked and prodded by a bunch of strangers.
I think its more fucking annoying that children have to be constantly hidden from the “threat” of nonces and parents have to be frightened about this sort of stuff, its like the nonces have won a big victory, have stolen peoples childhoods and are holding us all to ransom.
Its things like this which is why I don’t want to be a parent..
TBH the only real issue I can see about it in todays connected world and stuff being archived is that if you are one of the kids it is gonna be well embarrasing when you are 10-15 years old if your mates find the pic and plaster it all over bebo and on printouts in high school etc :laugh_at:
