The Ballerina Farming of America: How JD Vance, Elon Musk, and the Entire GOP Want to Trigger Mommy Mania

Hannah Neeleman wants us to know that life on Ballerina Farm makes her happy.

The "tradwife" trend has become politically charged enough that she tried to distance herself from it.

But tradwives are a handy fantasy for the quotidian conservatives who push “family values,” the intellectualized “pronatalists” and the outright zealots who want everyone to have babies.

In Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be, Tim Carney presents the gentlest case.

He argues that the intensive, 21st-century approach to childrearing has caused many people to avoid becoming parents.

But when his scope widens, the recommendations become advocacy for conservative gender roles.

New York Times puts out an “anti-nuptial message,” and that feminists on social media have reduced the pressure people feel to get married, writes Frida Ghitis .

Ghitis: In Hannah ’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth ( March 2024 ) Ghitis is the target for this push, but there isn’t any obvious evidence, she says.