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German Dad Helps Son By Wearing a Skirt
- Published_at:2012-09-02
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:TheYoungTurks
- tags: nils picket, son wears skirt, dad wears skirt, dad wearing skirt, son swearing skirt, son dresses like girl, cross dressing son, cross dressing kids, 'kids, gender, children gender, kids, roles, children gender roles, lgbt news, lgbt, dad of the year, german news, germany news
- description: "Nils Pickert's 5-year-old son likes wearing dresses. If anyone thinks that's odd they can take it up with Nils. He's the guy in the skirt. The German dad has become a role model not only for his son, but for parents around the world, after a photograph of the pair holding hands in red skirts spread across the internet. "Yes, I'm one of those dads, that tries to raise their children equal," he explained in an essay published alongside the photo in Emma, a German feminist magazine. Pickert never minded that his son liked dressing in little girl's clothes, but when his family moved from West Berlin to a small southern town in Germany, he learned that other people did...".* Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola (host of TYT University and Common Room) discuss on The Young Turks. *Read more here from Piper Weiss on Yahoo: http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/dad-protects-son-bullies-wearing-skirt-guess-works-153600107.html Photo courtesy of Emma Magazine: http://www.emma.de/ressorts/artikel/kinder-jugendliche/vater-im-rock/
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