Get the creepy babies off those magazine covers and back in their cribs

What's with the creepy baby photos that have been popping up on magazine covers lately? Art directors these days seem to be in love with using babies to illustrate everything from the anti-vaccine movement (Wired) to crybaby bankers (New York) to our national disillusionment (Time). (The full-looking diaper on that Time cover baby is probably bothering him more than the state of the union.) Or, from the success of World's Strictest Parents to Time's calling for an end to overparenting, maybe we've just had it with whiny kids.

—Posted by Lucia Moses