Even though it might be rhetorically affirming for conservatives to think that it’s probably a good thing that all these far-left people aren’t raising far-left children, or, good, the problem solves itself, the reality is that the left’s refusal to participate in increasing and padding the birth rate is making the importation of even more foreigners to compete in the labor market — and take over American culture and communities — inevitable.

The American left has a “family problem” in which an increasing number of liberal young adults, particularly women, are not interested in getting married and having children.

According to a new report from the Institute for Family Studies (IFS), liberal young women are not only less likely to be interested in getting married and having children, but also growing increasingly left-wing, which perpetuates their anti-family tendencies.

“The United States is witnessing a ‘closing of the American heart’ where fewer young men and women are getting married and having children, but this decline is especially precipitous for those on the Left,” report co-author Brad Wilcox, Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and Senior Fellow at IFS, said. “This ideological divide in family formation is important for two reasons: liberal young adults are happier when they are married with children, and we’re seeing Blue states lose ground, family-wise, to Red states in the number of kids who will lead a progressive future.”

The report shows that the percentage of conservative and liberal women between the age of 25 and 35 who have ever been married has dropped precipitously since the 1980s. While conservative women fell from 83 percent to 60 percent, liberal women dropped from 75 percent to 44 percent.

The percentage of liberal women in the same age range who had ever has children dropped from 60 percent to 40 percent since the 1980s, while conservative women actually achieved an uptick, from 65 percent to 71 percent.

The results are driven in large part by anti-family content from the left.

Anti-Family Corporate Media Propaganda

“Progressive messaging that devalues, denies, and deconstructs the value of family life and celebrates solo living in recent years is leaving its mark on the hearts, minds, and lives of young liberals,” the study states.

That kind of messaging includes propaganda from various corporate media outlets, like a piece in the New York Times arguing “married heterosexual motherhood in America … is a game no one wins.” The Washington Post ran an op-ed called “Divorce led me to my happily ever after,” and Bloomberg insists that having no family will make women more wealthy with its headline “Women who Stay Single and Don’t Have Kids are Getting Richer.” Psychology Today, meanwhile, ran a psy-op on young women claiming that staying single and childless will make them happier.

In reality, women are much happier married and with children. It does not take a study for any honest observer to witness the anger and despair of single, childless women. They sort of wear it on their sleeves (and post their rants online). But studies exist, too.

Just take a look at Tennessee state Rep. Aftyn Behn, the Democrat running for U.S. Congress to represent Nashville, who has condemned women who get married and have children as taking part in “deeply patriarchal structures.”

“My therapist always asks me to transcribe my dreams, and the recurring dream I’ve had is standing up in a cafeteria full of women and saying ‘I don’t want children. I want power!’” she said.

Apparently it’s generational for her family, since her mother made a point to tell her to never have children, too.

“If you’re skeptical of the idea that the Left has taken an anti-family turn in recent years, just listen in on Aftyn Behn (D-TN),” Wilcox stated in response to Behn. “Her (admittedly extreme) comments help explain why family formation is falling much more precipitously among liberal young women.”

‘Midas Mindset‘

Behn emphasized work, money, power, and a fear of sacrifice as her reasoning, much of which fits in with what the IFS report calls the “Midas Mindset” where “work is viewed as the source and summit of a meaningful and happy life. Focusing on love, marriage, and starting a family, by contrast, does not merit nearly the same devotion.”

A poll cited by the report showed that the Gen. Z women who cast a ballot for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election ranked getting married and having children “dead last” on a list of priorities, in favor of “Having a job or career you find fulfilling” and “Having enough money to do the things you want to do.”

The “Midas Mindset” is exacerbated by women being told that family “places undue burdens on women” and that avoiding family altogether opens “avenues that are as satisfying or more satisfying or lead to a happier, more fulfilled life,” according to one New York Times writer.

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