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This was not uncommon among pioneers in the 19th century, who often nursed toddlers until the age of 3 or 4 to supplement nutrition.  Today, nursing an 8-yr-old seems kinky as hell...

            --Historian and Family History Consultant

On the list of things I am concerned about in the world, this is somewhere near the very bottom.  Older than average daughter gets nutrition from mother.  Big deal.  Christ, what is it with people and their reaction to breastfeeding?  (Even if the age in the presented example are a ways in to the tail of the distribution.)

Amen Kermit! ummm, that's what boobs are for remember?

I sure hope these girls are home-schooled.  Their classmates sure aren't going to see this as a wonderful, natural thing.  

As a Doula, I can certainly wax on about the beauty and importance of breast milk and breastfeeding... BUT there is a line where the child starts developing socially and it completely takes all power and authority (and loving support) away from the father. Also social behavior becomes pretty strange when the child has another world to interact with, when the super-hormone inducing (drugging, basically) breast milk is still a safe-haven. The only world is then in the mother, and the only answer is with her >>> at a time when the child is developing very important psychological schemes about the world outside the womb....

I've seen this in action, and it isn't good....

as much as we all love breast milk... after 2/3 it's really just unhealthy for both the mother and the child's psyche.  

If they were still drinking from bottles or sucking on pacifiers we would declare it age-inappropriate. So yeah. Totally inappropriate. And freaky.

My son will be 3 at the end of next month and he still nurses once or twice at night. I see nothing wrong with it. I would feel really strange nursing him (especially during the day) after the age of maybe 3 1/2 tho. Thats when I plan to cut him off from the night "boobie" LOL.