Album covers with babies or young children

As I was deciding to make my album cover of a child drawn on a wall I researched several existing albums that also depicted infancy on a album cover. I withered down the vast number of results and chose only to use albums of which I was a fan of and had listened to. The majority of these albums use infancy to depict serious issues that are faced by grown ups and mankind as a whole. The illmatic album by Nas shows a picture of the rapper in a backdrop of the project that he grew up in. This shows where the album is coming from and the issues that he is facing whilst growing up in a poverty stricken neighborhood. The album tackles what he was going through at this moment in his life and how his environment has shaped him from infancy. The topics he talks about are gang violence, drug selling/abuse in the ghetto and New York city as a whole from his perspective. Without listening to the album you can gather the topics just from the picture, that is what i want my album cover to achieve.

The U2 album takes the pictures from another album titled WAR but I chose to put the greatest hits album cover as it conveys the image more clearly, as the other album requires a different album cover to feel the whole message. It depicts a small boy with a army hat on this is to show the violence in Ireland at the time with rebels groups such as the IRA and the brutality of the death, effectively calling Ireland a war-zone at the time with child soldiers as groups such as the Fenian's and IRA would recruit very young member's and would often die at very young ages. This again illustrates U2s point very clearly in a single image.

The Nirvana album, nevermind shows a baby floating in a vast pool of water trying to grasp a dollar bill. This shows how Nirvana feel that is what we are born to do, is to chase and acquire money. Again this shows the topics and themes of the album with one straight picture. I feel all these albums depict the themes clearly, some more so than others and this is ultimately what makes a good album cover to show the artists intent in just a single picture and is what I will try to emulate in my album cover that also features a small child.