Maybe you're not Financial stability, maybe financial stability is a priority, maybe the cost of living is really high. Maybe you can't afford it. Wants Kids? Well, then you should put on your helmet: J.D. Vance wants to go to war with you.
In a 2021 interview with The Federalist On a radio show, Vance declared unequivocally that it was time for the right to “wage war against the anti-child ideology that exists in our country.”
“There were these ridiculous efforts by millennial feminist writers to talk about why having children wasn’t a good thing, why they were happy not to have children, and even to encourage people who had children to talk about why they regretted having children,” Vance said. “Anyone can be an exceptional mother and father. But not everyone can be an exceptional journalist at the same time.” New York timesNot enough people accept that if they put their whole life meaning into their lives, [credentials] …you will be a sad, isolated, pathetic person, and you will know it internally. So these feelings will be reflected in people who have built something more significant in their lives.
It’s a constant theme for Vance, who was elected to the Ohio Senate in 2022 and was selected earlier this month to be former President Donald Trump’s vice president. In 2021, rural elegy The author complained that America was ruled by “a bunch of childless, miserable cat ladies.” [with] “Vance was talking about their own lives and the choices they made,” he said, explaining that he was partly referring to Vice President Harris, who has two children with her ex-husband. (When asked about the comments last week, Vance replied, “I have nothing against cats.”)
Vance, like many pro-natalist Republicans these days, has hailed the policies of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán—which pairs anti-immigration policies with tax breaks for parents with large families—as a model for the United States. Childless families, he said, should pay higher taxes than those with children, because we should “reward the things we think are good” and “punish the things we think are bad.”
But while Vance wants to appear as a pro-birth, pro-family Republican, he has consistently attacked and opposed policies aimed at easing the financial burden on American parents.
In 2021, Vance tweeted, “‘Universal child care’ is class warfare against ordinary people.” During his 2022 campaign, Vance opposed President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” legislation, which included provisions to reauthorize the expanded child tax credit, provide paid family leave, and provide universal child care. Vance specifically criticized the legislation for providing “a massive subsidy if you send your kids to child care,” arguing that “if you want your kids to be raised at home by a mom or dad, or you want to rely on grandparents, you’re not going to get anything.”
As a senator, Vance voted against legislation that would have codified the right to fertility treatments and artificial insemination.
Since being picked by Trump as his running mate, Vance has quickly gained a reputation as an “oddball” man, due to his far-right social views and habit of making extreme comments in friendly right-wing venues — such as The Federalist radio show.
rolling stone The New York Times previously reported on a series of disturbing comments Vance made on a podcast hosted by Australian reactionary Amy Therese, in which he supported a national abortion ban using the most vitriolic language possible.
“I would definitely like abortion to be illegal nationwide,” Vance said in a 2022 podcast, arguing that regulating abortion at the state level wouldn’t work because people would still be able to travel freely to other states. “Let’s say Roe v. Wade “That resolution was overturned,” he said. “Ohio bans abortion… you know, in 2024. Then, every day, George Soros sends a Boeing 747 to Columbus to disproportionately load black women to get them to go get abortions in California. And of course, the left is going to celebrate this as a victory for diversity.”
