WASHINGTON—Parents who brought their young children to Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington said they wanted their kids to realize early on that speaking up makes a difference and that feminism is not just for women.
Ella Muller showed up with her husband and two sons, aged 10 and 7. She told TPM she brought them to the march because she wants to “raise my boys to be feminists.”
The Brady sisters, who live in eastern Maryland, made their own T-shirts for the march. Seventh grader Cecilia’s read, “My hands are small I know…but they’re not yours, they are my own!” Emily, who is in fourth grade, wrote, “I may not have a vote but my voice still counts.”
Maureen Ford and her daughter Edie, 7, drove 10 hours from Lansing, Michigan in a charter bus with 56 women.
“I want her to know that women’s rights are human rights and to see how many other people feel this way,” she said. I think seeing that in person is so much more effective for a child than just being told about it.”
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Our six year old granddaughter and three year old grandson are marching in Denver.
The boy in the blue and black on the right does not appear to believe feminism is all his parents say it’s cracked up to be.
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