Nine months ago, the idea of the march was broached by Donna Dees-Thomases, a New Jersey mother, in Internet chats among women appalled by the relentless pace of child shootings.
At times the whole book seems to mourn, and to gain its power by mourning, the same dead child: relentless lines pray and shout, demanding answers, but find "waterstained stone cupids" and "the black black earth" instead.
The relentless erosion of children's freedom has been paralleled by the constant tendency to politicise parenting.
This relentless regime, testing children more than anywhere else in the western world, is associated with a high fall-out rate.
As anxious parents followed its progress in newspaper and radio reports, mass organised vacations in the mountains or by Lake Balaton were banned and – in the relentless, claustrophobic heat – children were forbidden to go to the baths and spas. .
We know from past school shootings and the relentless killing of children every day that Newtown families and the community will never be the same.
When you further track the linkages between food corporations, chemical corporations, pharmaceutical corporations, agribusiness, political policies, relentless marketing to children and families all seeking convenience food for fueling us in our busy worlds... well, it's really tough.
"These repeated and relentless attacks on children and schools are attacks on the future of Nigeria, a country that already has the largest number of children out of school in the world.
Relentless violence against children in the Central African Republic is an affront to humanity: UNICEF New York/Bangui, 16 December 2013 - As violence continues unabated in the Central African Republic, the horrific killing, abuse and harm being inflicted on children are an affront to humanity, UNICEF said today.
That kindled in Greg a great sense of social injustice.' As a child, facing relentless banter from his two older brothers, he learnt how to be funny and wicked in the same breath, a skill that has never left him.
