WALSH: If You Give Up Family For Career, You Also Give Up Happiness And Meaning

The Daily Wire reported yesterday about Michelle Obama’s latest attack on traditional values. The former First Lady was interviewed by “Blackish” star Tracee Ellis Ross and the women together lamented the fact that girls “still dream of weddings” and “Prince Charming.” The two agreed that some women (Tracee Ellis Ross included) can sacrifice family for the sake of a career and be “happy as a clam.” In fact, it would seem that Mrs. Obama — who is married with two kids — thinks this path is preferable, given that she considers it a problem when girls aspire to marriage. Ross provided compelling evidence to prove that her decision to forgo family life was the right call: “Look where I’m sitting,” she declared. Yes, the summit of all happiness is to sit on a stage with a former First Lady. Truly, this is the eternal bliss for which we were designed.

People who give up family for career are often quite anxious to announce their happiness to the world. This is the first sign that they are not happy. The second sign is that as the fertility rate in America has fallen below replacement level, and Americans increasingly look outside the home for fulfillment, we have also become a staggeringly depressed, stressed out, anxious nation of addicts and narcissists and compulsive TV-watchers.