"Please keep your hatred to yourselves": Pink hits back at 'parenting police' in angry online post
<p>Pink has defended her two children from backlash after she shared a photo of the pair at a Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.</p>
<p>She’s known to speak out against those who offer her parenting advice, and this time was no different. The singer was in Germany to perform as part of her <em>Beautiful Trauma</em> world tour, and while there, she posted a number of photos featuring her two kids Willow Sage, 8, and Jameson Moon, 2.</p>
<p>One of the images showed the two running through the city’s memorial, with many fans taking offence saying the act is offensive to those who died.</p>
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<p>“Berlin, I love you,” Pink wrote. “And for all of the comments; these two children are in actuality Jewish, as am I and the entirety of my mother’s family. The very person who constructed this believed in children being children, and to me this is a celebration of life after death. Please keep your hatred and judgement to yourselves.”</p>
<p>The mother-of-two referenced Peter Eisenman, the man behind the Berlin memorial. Speaking to <em>BBC</em> in 2017, the architect said that he does not find children playing at the memorial to be disrespectful.</p>
<p>“People have been jumping around on those pillars forever. They’ve been sunbathing, they’ve been having lunch there and I think that’s fine,” he said. “It’s like a Catholic Church, it’s a meeting place, children run around, they sell trinkets. A memorial is an everyday occurrence, it is not sacred ground.”</p>
<p>But despite his views, Eisenman made sure to mark a clear line of difference between the memorial he designed and burial sites such as Auschwitz, which he said are “a different environment.”</p>
<p>After ongoing hate comments against her parenting style, Pink made the decision to limit the amount of posts about her kids.</p>
<p>“People went as far as saying, ‘Someone should call Child Services,’ because he didn’t have a diaper on, and ‘How dare I?’ – just some of the nastiest things,” she revealed on <em>The Ellen DeGeneres Show</em>. </p>
<p>“I cried so hard after that because I like to share my family … I’m prouder of my kids than anything I’ve ever done and I just won’t share them anymore. I won’t do it.”</p>
