Posted on 02/07/2026 10:27:39 PM PST by Morgana
The White House is in a full-blown baby boom.
Second lady Usha Vance, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, and Katie Miller, wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, are all pregnant. It will be Vance’s fourth child, Leavitt’s second, and Miller’s fourth. White House deputy chief of staff James Blair and his wife, Sam, are expecting a baby come March, according to Louise Perry, writing for The Wall Street Journal.
Perry notes a partisan gap in birthrates: “Conservatives have more children than liberals. They also are more likely to marry and marry younger. While Democrats are increasingly the party of the childless, Republicans are increasingly the party of parents.”
“A recent analysis by the Financial Times indicates that, across the developed world, conservatives are having almost as many children as they were a few decades ago. It’s on the progressive left where birthrates are tumbling. Something about conservatives makes them resistant to the depopulation effect, at least for now,” Perry continues.
In the United States, the partisan birthrate gap emerged a little before 1980, according to John Burn-Murdoch, columnist and chief data reporter for the Financial Times. Trend lines are on the decline for both conservatives and progressives, but the birthrate among progressives has plunged below replacement level.
Marriage rates have fallen since the 1980s among both sexes and both parties. But marriage is more resilient among conservatives.
About 60% of conservative women aged 25 to 35 have ever married, claims the Institute for Family Studies, drawing on 1980 to 2024 data from the General Social Survey. About 44% of liberal women aged 25 to 35 have ever married. Among conservative men aged 25 to 35, about 57% have ever married. Among liberal men of the same age, about 35% have ever married.
Marriage between a man and a woman, despite the best efforts of liberal social engineers, remains the best foundation for childrearing. Even women with “open-minded” views on the matter might be personally reluctant to bear a stranger’s child, or a boyfriend’s child.
The left’s anti-natalist, anti-family messaging probably drives certain otherwise willing women away from marriage and motherhood. Other women might use those ideological pretexts to avoid what they see as a frightening and burdensome endeavor.
Then, there’s the positive feedback loop in left-wing circles: One is exposed to fewer marriages and babies, so getting married and having a baby seems a more remote possibility. The opposite sort of contagion effect might be at play in the White House.
The left openly despises the family. They have for quite some time. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels called to abolish the “present family, the bourgeois family,” belittling so-called radicals who winced at the idea. Marx and Engels charge the bourgeois parents with exploiting their children, the bourgeois husband with exploiting his wife.
Then came World War II, posited by some as definite proof of the evil of any right-of-center politics.
Where does the massive Republican fertility advantage come from?
Conservatives are willing to speak unabashedly about the value of children, starting at the very top.
That probably does more to raise birthrates than any policy, but most liberals just won’t talk up childbearing. https://t.co/7b8ObwYKJD pic.twitter.com/xuJhEeCTH3
— More Births (@MoreBirths) January 24, 2026
Beginning in the late sixties, Germany authorized and funded the intentional placement of “neglected children in foster homes run by pedophiles,” according to Rachel Aviv, writing for the New Yorker. This, at the behest of “sexologist” Helmut Kentler, an openly homosexual man who believed sexual contact between children and adults was harmless. Kentler had three adoptive sons and one foster son.
“Kentler’s career was framed by his belief in the damage wrought by dominant fathers … Like many of his contemporaries, Kentler came to believe that sexual repression was key to understanding the Fascist consciousness … The trials of twenty-two former Auschwitz officers had revealed a common personality type: ordinary, conservative, sexually inhibited, and preoccupied with bourgeois morality,” writes Aviv.
Consider the 1950 sociology book, “The Authoritarian Personality,” which suggested a child at the receiving end of too much discipline and structure (especially from the father) might turn out an authoritarian.
“In the late sixties, educators in more than thirty German cities and towns began establishing experimental day-care centers, where children were encouraged to be naked and to explore one another’s bodies,” Aviv continues.
She then cites historian Dagmar Herzog: “There is no question that they were trying (in a desperate sort of neo-Rousseauian authoritarian antiauthoritarianism) to remake German/human nature.”
For Marx and Engels and Kentler, the family was an obstacle to reproducing their left-wing worldview.
For the modern, anti-natalist left, the problem of reproducing their worldview is particularly tough. An anti-natalist movement is hard to sustain by its very nature. Consider the Shakers, a Christian sect founded in the mid 18th century. Procreation was forbidden. Consequently, there are about three living Shakers. They had to recruit by other means — conversion and adoption, primarily.
In the same fashion, modern leftists grow their ranks via education. The indoctrination might start as early as kindergarten. One is never too young to learn his parents are fascists.
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Most of the far left commie libs spayed and neutered themselves when the SCOTUS said that the U.S. Constitution does not defend abortions. They should have kids anyway. Most of the Karens are very angry screaming banshees who would not make good mothers to children. AOC’s Mod Squawd is a bunch of tantrum throwing Clintoon lice.
Know what I mean? Nudge , nudge. Wink, wink.
It’s the duty of a liberal woman to abort their baby and to reject and shun anyone who is pro life.
Munching carpet and packing fudge does have a negative effect on reproduction.
Just sayin’ . . .
We’re murdering less, that’s for sure
All women today are progammed to dislike men. Liberal women far more so, based on extended hate filled programming. Plus being massive proaborts. So its hardly shocking.
Yeah, we know what a woman is and give thanks to God for their special ability to give new life.
The other side is a death cult. It isn't rocket science.
I saw this comment on X today.
“13 weddings, mostly between classmates, from graduates of 2021-2025 in the latest Hillsdale alumni magazine.
10 new babies announced in this cohort.
Each class at Hillsdale has ~400 kids.
Birth and marriage rate doing just fine in the trad Christian enclaves. “
Are the liberals’ kids born with blue hair or does it come in later?
EC
I believe Kid Rock addressed this when he said something to the effect that the protest crowds seem to be filed with fugly, overweight, tottooed females with whom no one would want to mate and guys that looked like they wanted to mate with the other guys.
The Party of Death has to even import a new generation because they are incapable of of creating anything worthwhile and sustainable.
In my smallish church, the majority of couples in their 20-30s have (or plan to have) at least 4 kids. I know about five families now with 5-6 kids
The majority also homeschool, many of them also have small farms, and raise chickens, have gardens. And these are just your normal young people, and our church is mainstream and contemporary.
I think the craziness of the world has caused the pendulum to swing the other way.
Same at the one I attend. It’s a blessing
No, matter, immigration, both illegal and illegal, more than makes up for it.
Also they convert a large number of kids from conservative families in school.
Yep.
If these same people send their kids to PUBLIC SCHOOLS, they are STUPID and the kids will be LIBERAL ACTIVISTS!!
We’ll have to pray that the conservative parents raise their kids the right way!
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