{"id":293192,"date":"2020-06-03T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1158482"},"modified":"2020-06-03T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T02:16:00","slug":"the-bachelors-amanda-stanton-defends-decision-to-bring-her-kids-to-powerful-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/the-bachelors-amanda-stanton-defends-decision-to-bring-her-kids-to-powerful-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bachelor&#8217;s Amanda Stanton Defends Decision to Bring Her Kids to &#8220;Powerful&#8221; Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202053\/rs_1024x759-200603182559-1024-amanda_stanton_mp_6.3.20.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Amanda Stanton, Instagram\" alt=\"Amanda Stanton, Instagram\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Amanda Stanton \/ Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.070638297872\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"23.468936170213\">\n<p><strong>Amanda Stanton<\/strong>&nbsp;is standing by her decision to bring her young daughters to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/shows\/daily_pop\/news\/1157861\/e-s-nina-parker-shares-ways-to-take-action-get-involved-amid-nationwide-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Lives Matter protest<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday,&nbsp;<em>The Bachelor<\/em> star shared a photo of her and 5-year-old&nbsp;<strong>Charlie&nbsp;<\/strong>participating in a peaceful demonstration in Newport Beach, Calif. While many of her 1.2 million Instagram followers applauded Amanda for letting her and 8-year-old daughter&nbsp;<strong>Kinsley<\/strong> witness history being made, one commenter expressed their disappointment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe you put your girls in an uncompromising situation and instill fear in their hearts just for shame. Shame on you!!&#8221; the Instagram user wrote, to which Amanda responded, &#8220;She was not scared and it was very peaceful. She was proud to make her sign and be there and I&#8217;m happy she got to experience the emotion and passion in everyone there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amanda then posted a lengthier response to the criticism on her Instagram Stories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand not everyone is comfortable protesting or bringing kids and I totally understand that! I went back and forth on it and it was a decision I made so they could learn from an early age to use their voice and exercise their rights to stand up for something that&#8217;s so important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>Describing the gathering as &#8220;peaceful and powerful,&#8221; Amanda continued, &#8220;No books or words can ever teach them the passion and emotion behind what they experienced today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope it encourages them to be braver than I was growing up when it comes to using their voice and taking action,&#8221; the mom of two concluded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.078498293515\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11.692832764505\">\n<p>During today&#8217;s Newport Beach protest, a car careened through a crowd of protesters. In footage of the incident shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCLA\/status\/1268351670074970115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC Los Angeles<\/a>, protesters are seen fleeing for safety as the Mini Cooper drives through the crowded street. The driver of the vehicle was taken into police custody. NBC LA reports that a bicyclist was struck but did not suffer life-threatening injuries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amanda told another commenter who asked if she witnessed what occurred, &#8220;We left 15 minutes before and are safe but I am so shook and saddened that happened. It really was such a beautiful and peaceful day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.217391304348\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2.3478260869565\">\n<p>The reality TV star and fashion designer is among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1157834\/see-every-celebrity-participating-in-protests-in-light-of-george-floyd-s-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dozens of celebrities<\/a> to attend protests calling for racial equality after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1158292\/george-floyd-investigation-3-additional-officers-charged-derek-chauvin-s-charge-upgraded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">police killing<\/a> of&nbsp;<strong>George Floyd<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1158482\/the-bachelor-s-amanda-stanton-reacts-after-being-accused-of-bringing-kids-to-protest-for-fame?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Stanton \/ Instagram Amanda Stanton&nbsp;is standing by her decision to bring her young daughters to a Black Lives Matter protest.&nbsp; On Wednesday,&nbsp;The Bachelor star shared a photo of her and 5-year-old&nbsp;Charlie&nbsp;participating in a peaceful demonstration in Newport Beach, Calif. While many of her 1.2 million Instagram followers applauded Amanda for letting her and 8-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-18 16:25:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}