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British singer Lily Allen just made headlines for claiming that her two children “ruined” her career. “I love them and they complete me, but in terms of pop stardom, totally ruined it,” she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/singer-lily-allen-my-children-ruined-my-career-says-people-cant-have-it-all" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a podcast interview. “It really annoys me when people say you can have it all because, quite frankly, you can’t.”
It may be true that not everyone can be everything, and that mothers who also pursue careers face unique challenges. But that doesn’t mean that moms can’t achieve success in Hollywood, sports, or any other industry. That success may just look a little different or be on an extended timeline compared to their peers.
Candace Cameron Bure is the perfect example of a Hollywood mom who managed to do it all with absolute grace and class.
The former child star, who rose to fame portraying D.J. Tanner on the popular 90s sitcom “Full House,” has had a long-lasting and successful Hollywood career. Now at the age of 47, she’s the chief content officer of Great American Media.
<div id="attachment_709241" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-709241" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-709241" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/GettyImages-1248942050-864x576.jpg" alt="HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT - MARCH 18: (L-R) Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure, Andrea Barber and Jodie Sweetin attend 90s Con held at Connecticut Convention Center on March 18, 2023 in Hartford, Connecticut. (Photos by Emily Assiran/Getty Images for 90's Con)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/GettyImages-1248942050-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/GettyImages-1248942050-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/GettyImages-1248942050-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/03/GettyImages-1248942050.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Emily Assiran/Getty Images for 90&#8217;s Con</div>
Bure has competed on the reality competition show “Dancing With the Stars,” written four books, reprised her sitcom role in the spinoff “Fuller House” (2016-2020), and achieved much success starring in several fan-loved movies on the Hallmark Channel before making the move to Great American Media.
Perhaps the most shocking part of Bure’s success is that she’s openly conservative and Christian. The actress has caught heat in the industry for standing up for her values but hasn’t backed down or apologized for saying what she said.
“When I had a lot of these ‘bullets’ kind of hit me in the last year or so, they’ve been a really big challenge to me personally, to my heart, to my character, to my relationships, to my jobs,” Bure <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/candace-cameron-bure-dismisses-attempts-to-cancel-her-as-a-test-of-faith" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a December episode of her podcast. “I remember being so upset over it, because it’s like how do you recover?”
“I’ll just say it, cancel culture is very real,” she added. “And they were trying to cancel me.”
A lot of the backlash came when Bure switched from Hallmark to GAC and said they planned to “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/candace-cameron-bure-confirms-network-will-keep-traditional-marriage-at-the-core-while-hallmark-leans-into-lgbtq-stories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">keep traditional marriage</a> at the core” of the content made there. But so far, besides clarifying her comments and lack of hate for any group, the actress has not backed down from those statements.
Despite how Lily Allen feels about motherhood and careers coexisting, Bure managed to achieve it all while successfully raising her kids. The celeb married Russian NHL hockey player Valeri Bure on June 22, 1996 and went on to have three children with him.
Natasha Valerievna was born in August 1998. Next came two boys, Lev in February 2000 and Maksim “Maks” in January 2002.
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In case any critics are tempted to accuse Bure of outsourcing her parenting duties with full-time nannies, it doesn’t sound like that’s the case. The “Full House” star told People in 2011 that her family is very close-knit.
&#8220;We are a very close family and no matter what&#8217;s on the schedule, we all stick together,&#8221; Bure <a href="https://people.com/parents/candace-cameron-bure-chats-truth-be-told/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the outlet at the time. &#8220;We have dinner together just about every night and our weekends are all about having fun together. My time is so short with them and I know that when they start driving, it will start to change. But for now, I keep them close.&#8221;
Bure has been keeping fans up to date on what’s going on in her kids’ lives lately.
&#8220;What a day! My boy. My son. My baby. So proud of you,&#8221; the actress <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CPMlvtjBaNP/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on Instagram when Maksim graduated high school in 2021. &#8220;You have grown so much in character and your love for God. Your joy is infectious! You are and have always been such a blessing to us; to be your mama and papa. We are so grateful God gave us to you to be your parents. As well as everyone who has contributed in your journey.&#8221;
Maksim followed in his father’s footsteps and went on to play hockey at Liberty University.
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Bure got to try out a new role in January 2024 when her middle child tied the knot: mother of the groom.
&#8220;Words cannot express the joy we have felt this weekend celebrating the marriage of our son and his bride Elliott. We gained a beautiful daughter and a wonderful family to do life with,&#8221; the celeb wrote in a photo <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C2ukdvyruEQ/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on Instagram. &#8220;I have an overwhelming sense of love, joy, peace and contentment thanks to God’s blessing of family and friendship. My heart is so full.&#8221;
The actress’s oldest daughter, meanwhile, dabbled in acting and modeling just like her movie star mom. But unlike so many other young and beautiful Hollywood celebrities, Natasha hasn’t fallen victim to the cult of woke nor has she tried to get attention by dressing in skimpy outfits.
Natasha spoke about embracing the conservative values her parents instilled, including in the way she dressed. “Modesty &amp; I have come a long way truthfully,” she shared to Instagram stories in 2023. “A year or two ago I dressed COMPLETELY different and showed WAY more of my body than I ever needed to.”
&#8220;I still want to dress stylishly and keep up with the trends but I don&#8217;t ever want to compromise my values,&#8221; Natasha wrote.
Bure’s eldest daughter also publicly defended her mom when she got into a public back-and-forth with JoJo Siwa in 2022. Siwa had originally called Bure the “rudest celebrity” she ever met, a sentiment which the actress responded to immediately.
“Honestly, I was shocked when I saw the TikTok on Sunday, and I had no idea where it came from,” Bure said in a video to her followers just after the incident happened, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-called-her-candace-cameron-bures-all-class-response-after-jojo-siwa-trashes-her-as-rudest-celebrity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “I immediately tried to reach out to her through a mutual friend … because I didn’t know what happened — I didn’t know.”
The “Fuller House” star said she personally reached out to Siwa to reconcile. “I called her,” Bure said. “We had a great conversation.” She related that the criticism stemmed from an interaction the two had when Siwa was 11 and felt ignored when asking Bure for a photo on the red carpet at an event.
&#8220;Respectfully, someone saying no to taking a photo with you is not a &#8216;rough experience,'&#8221; Natasha shared in stories at the time. &#8220;This generation is so sensitive and has zero backbone. Grow up. There are bigger issues in the world than this.&#8221;
Not everyone is able to have a successful career and be an attentive mother. But for anyone looking for examples of it working out in real life, Bure is a role model in the Hollywood sphere.

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The Irish government has been served the mother of all wake-up calls.
Having spent 24 million euros in taxpayer money on a virtue-signaling effort to convince the nation to remove the word “mother” from its Constitution, the Irish government was dealt a swift clip around the ear this past weekend with a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ireland-looks-set-reject-constitutional-changes-2024-03-09/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resounding defeat</a> of its latest “progressive” referendum.
The proposed changes would have removed provisions that recognize and honor women’s service to society in raising the next generation of responsible citizens:
<blockquote>… the State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved.
The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home.</blockquote>
A “yes” result would have replaced this language with a gender neutral alternative, obliging the State more vaguely to support care within the home and the community. It might seem like a small tweak. And certainly, there are some men who play a significant role as stay-at-home dads. But the male and female experiences in the workplace, home, and society-at-large are different. Women and men are not interchangeable. The pressures placed on mothers are unique. It’s she, having birthed the child in an experience that no man can replicate, who then navigates the delicate balance of work-versus-family.
Irish mothers, it would seem, knew best — with a thundering 74% vote in favor of protecting the original wording of the constitution.
The data has always supported such an outcome — which the government might have noticed, had they not blindly assumed that they could speak for the women of Ireland. <a href="https://everymum.ie/my-family/two-thirds-of-irish-mothers-would-prefer-to-stay-home-instead-of-going-to-work" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Two-thirds</a> of Irish mums would prefer to stay at home to parent full-time, than return to work — if only they could afford it.
It’s a sentiment echoed across the West, with <a href="https://time.com/4068559/gallup-poll-stay-at-home-mothers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">56%</a> of American mums agreeing that they’d prefer to stay home and prioritize child-raising over career advancement. Over a <a href="https://www.civitas.org.uk/2023/05/10/mothers-preferences-over-childcare-and-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">third</a> of their British counterparts concur. Today’s model of “boss babe” feminism typically stigmatizes this dream, requiring women regain social status by rejoining the rat race to the boardroom as soon as possible after giving birth.
But what have we gained from such a model? A plummeting birth rate, for one. The pressure on women to spend their twenties and thirties advancing through zoom calls and office cubicles has surely played a hand in the birthrate recently <a href="https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/irelands-birth-rate-drops-sharply-to-reach-lowest-level-in-decades-1598551.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">falling</a> to the lowest level on record in six decades. A generation of disillusioned women have been schooled that their value in society depends on their GDP contribution, rather than their input into raising the next generation.
Western governments have taken “maternity policy” to largely mean cheaper outsourcing of childcare, to allow women to return to work as soon as possible — rather than finding creative solutions to support women’s choices to prioritize parenting, and invest in raising the next generation. The outcome for society is yet to be fully unpacked. U.S. studies <a href="https://www.nichd.nih.gov/sites/default/files/publications/pubs/documents/seccyd_06.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a> that lots of hours spent in outsourced daycare can have a link to increased aggression and disobedience in children, poorer relationships with teachers, and a higher susceptibility to risk-taking at the age of 15 — including through sex, drugs and alcohol use.
It’s not only an outdated concept of Carrie Bradshaw feminism that is downgrading the value and respect attributed to mums. The growing practice of surrogacy demands the commercialization of motherhood — downgrading the role of a pregnant mother as a mere “incubator” for a product to be passed on to a customer. An increasing trend amongst gay men growing a family through surrogacy is to announce the news on social media with their shirts off, in a hospital bed, posing as if post-birth. UK Law Commission proposals would seek to enable two dads in such a situation to be named on the birth certificate on the day, thus erasing both the legal and social role of a mother in the life of the child she carried and delivered.
There’s no question about it — dads are amazing, and are necessary in a child’s life. But a thousand excellent dads cannot replace one mum — and her unique, feminine, nurturing role. The life of a mother is an often thankless task. Ireland are miles ahead of the rest of the West in acknowledging her irreplaceable role within their constitution. It’s time now to put their words into practice — by honoring mums with better, more flexible work options, and the ability to make an empowered choice to stay absent from the workforce for the length of time she deems necessary to raise her children.
The Irish government have talked a strong game about supporting “choice” in recent years. If that’s the case, it’s long past time to support a woman’s choice to be a committed mum.
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Lois McLatchie Miller is Senior Legal Communications Officer for Alliance Defending Freedom UK. Follow her: @LoisMcLatch
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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November is National Adoption Month.
One doesn’t often hear that indecisiveness can be a blessing. For me, it was the difference between life and death – and the presence of a sweet, 5-year-old boy today. 
Growing up in a Christian household that emphasized the dignity of life, I was at a loss when I discovered that I was unexpectedly pregnant as a single 23-year-old. I had just been let go from my work and didn’t know what to do.
I regretfully admit that abortion was immediately top of mind.
Thankfully, my close relationship with my mother, my confidant, led me to <a href="https://newlifeadoptionsmn.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Life Adoption</a>, where a compassionate social worker discussed all of my options with me – including adoption.
Abortion was still tempting – a seemingly quick fix – but the more I thought about it, the more that its permanence seeped into my heart. The child in my womb was here with me, right now. Abortion would not only take him away from me, but extinguish his life, forever. There would be no turning back.
Adoption, on the other hand, would allow me more time to consider my options – and still guarantee that, in the end, I wouldn’t need to embrace the parenting role I didn’t feel ready for.
It eventually became clear that adoption was the right path. Thanks to my family, New Life Adoption, and my supportive friends, I had the courage to choose it – and from that moment, everything fell into place.
After flipping through numerous family profile books provided by New Life, some close family friends — who had also previously adopted a child through New Life — asked to be considered. I agreed to interview them over coffee.
I teared up at their vulnerable story of losing twins in their last pregnancy, and their adoption journey with their first son. While I could never replace the two babies they lost, it gave me great comfort to know I could add a second, beautiful life to their family.
Every single birth mother I have encountered has told me the same thing: when they met the right family, it immediately clicked. That is how it was with our family friends: overwhelming relief, certainty, and peace.
I knew that the pregnancy journey was just as important to my son’s adoptive parents as it was to me. I wanted nothing more than for them to build special connections with him from the start, so I asked if they would choose his name – they first chose “James,” a family name for both of us, as his middle.
Deep down, I thought “Samuel” would be the perfect name for him, but never relayed it so as not to pressure them. So, when his adoptive parents came back to suggest the name “Samuel James,” my choice of them as his parents was confirmed.
Samuel’s adoptive family was with me in the hospital as I gave birth. I watched his mom’s eyes light up with tears and joy as she looked at her son for the very first time, and with my permission she snipped his umbilical cord.
For months before labor and delivery, I had feared what it would be like to place my child with someone else, and go home to an empty house. My fears were calmed, however, when I witnessed the completeness of the family in front of me – something that would not have happened if I had continued to consider an abortion.
Thankfully, the joy of that moment, accompanied by the support I had from my family, friends, and especially New Life Adoption, filled me with peace as I walked through my front door after leaving the hospital. In choosing life, and finding the perfect family for my son&#8217;s future, I felt more fulfilled than ever before.
I recently moved away to pursue work; yet, even though Samuel is thousands of miles away, I feel his joy in the world. I receive pictures almost daily from his parents, and laugh at their stories of his energy, stubbornness, and compassion – all traits they recognize from me and my family. More than anything, it brings me immense happiness to see the love between Samuel and his brother, and the amazing life they get to live together.
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Looking back, I know that none of this would have been possible without the tremendous support I received from my entire family and New Life Adoption – support that gave me the calm and clarity to consider the tragic realities of abortion and the joys possible through adoption.
Whether it be from family, friends, or strangers, I hope every women feels supported and empowered to choose life for her child, even if she knows she isn’t ready to be a parent. There are so many loving couples in the world who will not only embrace your child but you too. My experience with adoption has shown me that life is a precious gift worth giving.
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Sophrona Lavasseur lives in Arizona and is currently working as a sales manager. As a small business owner, she spends her summer weekends in the Midwest as a wedding coordinator with Joyful Day Weddings. Any free time is spent serving on the board of her hometown community festival ambassador program, traveling, and speaking at events surrounding education on adoption.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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I have spent a lot of time in my career defending the institution of marriage. I defend it because it is the bedrock of civilization, so it deserves defending. And I defend it because it is under constant attack, so it needs defending. One of the most troubling developments in recent years — which we’ve discussed on this show in the past — is that these attacks are increasingly waged not just from the Left but from certain noisy segments of the Right as well. Some right-wing influencers — with legions of young, mostly male fans — have decided that men should abandon marriage and family life and go their own way. These influencers — many of whom consider themselves a part of the so-called “red pill” movement — pretend to despise feminists, and yet have essentially arrived at the same conclusion as feminists: give up on the family. The two sides hate marriage almost as much as they hate each other.
One of these influencers is a woman named Pearl Davis who has garnered a relatively large following on YouTube and various social media platforms. She’s in her mid twenties, single, and childless, and yet full of opinions about modern marriage and family life — a subject she has no personal insight into whatsoever. She has spent the past few days on the internet complaining about “tradcons” like myself who, she says, promote the nuclear family despite not understanding what it’s really like. Yes, we men who actually have wives and children don’t know what it’s like to be married, but a woman who is not married and has no children does know what it’s like.
In one of her tweets she wrote: “The trad cons push marriage because they aren’t old enough to know better yet. They don’t know the reality of what they’re pushing.” This is accompanied by a picture of myself, Ben Shapiro, and Michael Knowles. We “aren’t old enough to know better” and “don’t know the reality of what we’re pushing.” Yet a woman who is younger than us, and single, does know better and does understand this reality. 
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The trad cons push marriage because they aren’t old enough to know better yet. 
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In other posts she goes on to say that marriage is a “terrible deal for men.” She later explains: “Would you ever sign a contract that fails 75% of the time where your business partner is paid to break the contract? Why would you encourage men to sign that contract until the terms are fixed?”
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The virtue signaling needs to stop. For an organization that talks about facts &#8211; let’s ask the question. 
Would you ever sign a contract that fails 75% of the time where your business partner is paid to break the contract? 
Why would you encourage men to sign that contract… <a href="https://t.co/vpZO7rqFkf">https://t.co/vpZO7rqFkf</a>
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You may be surprised to learn that marriages fail at a rate of 75%. The figure that people like this normally use is 50%. The claim that 50% of marriages end in divorce is already spurious. More on that in a moment. But 75%? I was wondering where that number came from, so I scrolled down and saw something she reposted from an alleged lawyer who said this: “It’s not 50:50 – that only accounts for divorces. Add another 25% on the negative side for miserable men trapped in “cheaper to keep her” marriages unwilling to risk financial destruction and loss of their children. 75% chance of a devastatingly bad outcome is just a bad plan. No sane person would enter into a commercial contract on such terms.” I did ask him where he got this 75% figure and he wouldn’t say. Apparently the magic statistic fairy came and whispered it in his ear. 
For her part, Pearl later tweeted a picture of <a href="https://twitter.com/pearlythingz/status/1706092154131476883" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pierce Brosnan with his wife</a> of 20 years. She questioned whether the marriage “counts as successful” since Brosnan’s wife has put on some weight at the age of 60. Apparently even if they’re happy and have remained married for two decades, they still might fall into that 75% failure rate because they have not both remained in super model condition into their 60s.
This debate on social media brought out the rest of the marriage-skeptical crowd on the Right. A bunch of these &#8220;red pill&#8221; influencers decided to hop on an emergency Zoom call and spend two hours talking about me, and the rest of the Daily Wire crew, and our reckless promotion of society’s most fundamental institution. There’s a divorce lawyer who says that the failure rate for marriage is not 50%, not 75%, but in fact <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/iyFaZohlPic?feature=shared&amp;t=1659" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even higher</a>. A happy marriage, he says, is like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/iyFaZohlPic?feature=shared&amp;t=1659">winning the lottery</a>. The thing about the lottery, though, is that almost everyone loses. This is a perfect summation of how this entire club views marriage. Sure it can be great, they concede — but only if you’re insanely lucky. Everyone else is screwed. It is a rather bleak view. Thankfully, it’s also nonsense. First of all, the claim that marriage isn’t “scalable” is obviously ludicrous. Marriage has served as the bedrock of human society since time immemorial. It has already happened at the scale of civilization for thousands of years.
What about the failure rate of marriages in our culture? We’ve heard 50%, we’ve heard 75%, and we just heard that they fail at a rate similar to the rate that people lose the lottery. Which would mean higher than 99%. Yet these kinds of astronomical odds are not based in anything but the doom and gloom speculations of the people inventing them. There is no evidence that having a happy marriage is as unlikely as winning the lottery, or that 75% of marriages end in misery. What about the 50% number? This at least is a familiar statistic — familiar, but bogus. One way that you know it’s bogus is that people have been claiming 50% of marriages end in divorce since I was a kid. That would mean divorce rates are static across time, but of course that isn’t the case. In fact, we know that divorce rates have gone down in recent years. So where does the 50% figure come from? Apparently, it’s a holdover from the 1980s, which is when people first started citing that statistic, and it’s not true today. It’s also not clear that it was true in the 80s either.
What is the actual divorce rate? Our best guess is based on U.S. Census data, which, according to the most recent figures, says that about 35% of American adults who have been married, have been divorced. 35% is high — way too high — but it’s not 50%, and it’s not 75%, and it’s not 99%, and it’s not lottery odds. Still, isn’t it terrifying to think that, if you get married, your chance of failure is 35% and the chance of success is only 65%, at the most? Isn’t that high enough that it should dissuade anyone from attempting it? The answer to that question is no. Here’s why.
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If the divorce rate is 35% — or even if it’s 50% — it does not follow that your own particular marriage has a 35 or 50% chance of failure. I’m not saying that you should be cocky or reckless or see yourself as invincible. I am saying that you shouldn’t, on the other extreme, see yourself as passive debris floating helplessly on the tide of statistical likelihoods. You are an individual, your marriage is an individual thing, and its chances of failure are not set by society at large.
Here’s an example to illustrate what I mean. The obesity rate in the United States is over 40%. Does that mean that your own chances of becoming obese are 40%? No, it does not. Your chances might be 5%, they might be practically zero, or they might be quite a bit higher than 40%. That’s because obesity is the result of behavior and choices. If you do not engage in the behavior or make the choices that lead to obesity, you will not become obese. The fact that 40% of the people around you are fat does not mean that you automatically have a 40% obesity risk.
Let’s take another example: car accidents.ar accidents. Americans get into car accidents at a certain rate. I’m not sure what the rate is, and it doesn’t matter for our purposes. What does matter is that your own individual chance of getting into a car accident is not the same as every other driver on the road. The people who compile statistics will say things like “motorists have an (X)% chance of getting into a collision.” But you are not just a generic motorist. You are an individual. You can never bring your own chance of dying in a fiery car wreck down to zero, but if you are a responsible driver then obviously your chances of getting into an accident are much lower than the chances of someone who is not responsible. All of those stupid drivers who don’t understand the basic rules of the road, and like to tweet and eat while they drive, are inflating the numbers for everyone. They are also making the roads more dangerous for everyone — because of them your chances of getting into a car accident are actually higher. But your chances are not as high as their chances. You do not share their level of risk. Because, again, you are an individual not a mere statistic.
What about marriage? It’s true that even if you do everything right, things can still fall apart if your spouse doesn’t follow that program. That happens. It’s terrible, but it happens. It’s also true that there are many, many things you can do in your marriage to make it much more secure than the average. Obvious things. You can marry someone who shares your same fundamental values. You can state from the outset that you both, in principle, don’t believe in divorce and won’t consider it as a viable option for solving any marital difficulties you may experience down the line. Have a strong and shared faith. Establish from the beginning a habit of honest communication. Make time for each other. Continue to date even — or especially — as your lives get busier and you start having kids and so on. Make a strong effort to be patient with and grateful to each other. Take care of your body and your appearance. You can do all of these things, and more.
I’m not saying that if you do all of this it will bring your divorce chance down to zero. I’m not denying that there are plenty of people out there who did it all, at least on their own end, and yet still ended up divorced. That’s not my point. My point is that the “divorce rate” doesn’t take any of this into account. The people who take none of these basic steps are lumped in with the people who do all of it, and we’re supposed to believe that both groups have an equal chance of marital failure. That is just not true.
I don’t deny that there are real, serious problems with marriage in our society. The so-called “red pill” community, and others, raise totally legitimate and important points on that end. We need drastic reform; abolish no-fault divorce; the entire family court system has to be torn down and rebuilt. The system is stacked against men in many ways that are extremely unfair and have ruined countless lives. So, let&#8217;s absolutely fight for those reforms.
But this systemic problem is not going to be solved today, or tomorrow, or next week. Abolishing no-fault divorce is just the beginning of reforming the system. Lawmakers in a small number of red states have only just started to seriously consider that idea, which is merely step one. We are a long way off from fixing the system. It took decades to get us here, it will take decades to get us out, at best. This is a long-term struggle.
The question is what are young men — young people in general — supposed to do in the meantime? This is where the “red pill” becomes more of a hazy, foggy, ambiguous pill. They have no answer. They simply shout about “reforms” that are needed, yet have nothing to say to the young men in our culture today who will be old, if not dead, by the time the system is fixed, if it’s ever fixed at all. What are these young men supposed to do right now? What kind of life would you have them lead right now?
The answer, it appears, is that an entire generation of young men — if not multiple generations — should skip marriage while we wait for the system to improve. But this is not a viable solution. It’s not a solution at all, it&#8217;s a surrender. You are asking entire generations to give up their bloodline, their legacy, their chance of finding the transcendent joy and meaning that family life can provide. You are asking them to give up on themselves, and on civilization itself. For thousands of years human beings have always understood that their most basic purpose and obligation was to form families and have children — and yet you are telling these young men to ignore this calling. And do what instead? Live for themselves, alone, wasting away in front of screens, only to die with no descendants, leaving no lasting mark on the world? Think about the kind of misery you are consigning these men to. Think about the catastrophic, probably fatal effect this would have on our country. You can’t give up on propagating the species for a few decades and then pick it back up again like nothing happened. That doesn’t work on any level — individually or societally. It is a recipe for despair and collapse.
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Am I saying that young men should accept the risk, then, and get married anyway? Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. That doesn’t mean you should be reckless — I’ve already talked about the many practical things you can do to mitigate your own risk so that it is not a roll of the dice. You should do all of those things. Don’t go into marriage blind — but don’t run from it either. Even if you mitigate the risk to the extent possible, still there will be a risk. That’s true.
But here’s the rub: all good things come with risk. The more worthwhile it is, the worse and more disastrous it will be if you fail. If you take on more responsibility, then your life will be more consequential, and the more consequential your life is, the more cataclysmic your failures potentially become. A married man with children lives a life of greater consequence than a single man with no children. There are more people depending on him. He has a greater stake in the future. This means that if things go sideways, it will be a tragedy. If he screws up, or his wife screws up, or they both do, his life will be ruined, his children will be devastated, and the impact will reverberate down through the generations. This is what it means to live a high-impact, consequential life. These are the stakes, and yes they are quite high.
Sure, you can stave off that sort of catastrophe by staying by yourself, never going out on a limb, never taking any risks, never marrying, never having kids, never striving for anything great or meaningful. But then you are not avoiding failure and misery, you are guaranteeing it. You are ensuring that you never lose your family in a divorce by never having a family to lose in the first place, which is like ensuring that you never go bankrupt by being bankrupt to begin with. Not losing by having nothing to lose is a loss in itself. I don’t want that for anyone. It’s not a path to happiness and prosperity — for either you or society. It is a path to defeat — a preemptive and self-imposed defeat. And that is the worst kind of all.

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The Institution Of Marriage Is Under Attack From All Sides

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Postpartum depression (PPD) has drawn increased attention in recent years as people become more knowledgeable about the disorder. While it is a heartbreaking condition for families across the United States, and more discussion and research about it is beneficial, the rising rates of postpartum depression are not happening in a vacuum. Rather, they exist alongside a cultural devaluation of motherhood, which should be considered as a factor in the escalating cases.
Many women experience feelings of sadness after having a baby, which are typically called “baby blues,” and often dissipate during the first two weeks postpartum. However, postpartum depression is a lengthier and more serious mental health condition. According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">postpartumdepression.org</a>, around 10% of women will experience postpartum depression after delivering their babies. Additionally, a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the CDC found that postpartum depressive symptoms occurred among 13.2% of respondents.
The cause of postpartum depression is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unknown</a>, but factors, such as one’s general lifestyle choices and social situation, could contribute to the disorder. According to the National Library of Medicine, postpartum depression can <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">happen</a> in women who experience anxiety and depression at any point in their pregnancy. “Risk factors&#8221; include a “[h]istory of depression and anxiety,” as well as having a “[n]egative attitude towards the baby.” Others include a difficult pregnancy, and “[l]ack of social support can cause postpartum depression.”
WebMD <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> that the initial signs of postpartum depression could be women “feel[ing] unhappy about being a parent.” Other symptoms include their sleep patterns shifting, worries that they won’t be a good mom, women struggling to make decisions, and losing interest in things that used to bring them enjoyment. If mothers experience thoughts of harming themselves or their babies, these are symptoms of worsened postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis that should be immediately addressed.
Postpartum depression appears to have similar <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">characteristics</a> to other forms of depression — some people are more likely to suffer from it than others, but it is also exacerbated by certain conditions. Some women who are particularly <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vulnerable</a> might be more likely to develop symptoms of depression after their bodies experience major hormonal changes following delivery. While the public has grown increasingly aware of postpartum depression, the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussion</a> of it focuses on low access to medical care for postpartum women instead of external factors, which are taken into consideration with other mental health struggles.
Depression and anxiety are often treated with medication, but the general population has an understanding that certain elements make a substantial impact on the likelihood that one will experience depression or anxiety. For example, over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, anxiety and depression went up around the world by 25%, according to a brief <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> by the World Health Organization. The increase in isolation and stress impacted people on a worldwide level, but the external factors affecting postpartum women’s mental health are not as immediately taken into consideration.
Research <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a> that instances of PPD have been historically rising. A Blue Cross Blue Shield <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> found that postpartum depression diagnoses <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> nearly 30% from 2014 to 2018. In 2016, there was a slight decrease followed by a jump. Early on in the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pandemic</a>, postpartum depression also went up. It also <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">occurs</a> throughout the world. In Western developed nations, a survey found that PPD prevalence was 7% to 40%, whereas Asian countries saw a prevalence of 3.5% to 63.3%. Globally, it is 10 to 15%. 
As concern over postpartum depression grows, the medical community has answered with pharmaceuticals. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">approved</a> the first pill to treat postpartum depression earlier this month. However, while research on postpartum depression should continue, it should not be isolated as a mental health issue that is entirely unlike other depressive conditions that have no connection to societal shifts.
In the past several years, society has devalued motherhood to an extent that is likely impacting the feelings of desperation many women experience when confronted with the life-altering shift of becoming a mother. The recent cultural attitude towards motherhood has been a reduction in acknowledging its importance and benefits to society as a whole. It has made women feel as if the stresses and struggles of becoming a mother are abnormal and they would be better off forgoing childbearing completely.
A 2014 Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> contained information taken from interviews of parents in Australia, most of whom said that they had “‘unrealistic’ expectations” about the characteristics of infants in early parenthood. It also noted how many Americans are having fewer babies than they did in the past, which results in fewer interactions with children, leaving new parents uneducated about how to take care of babies. The Post claimed that the media portrays an unrealistic and inaccurate picture of early motherhood bliss and perfection, which puts a strain on new parents. However, new mothers growing up in today’s society would likely say the opposite.
As others have pointed out, young women are no longer intentionally prepared for the job of raising a family. The internet instead has stepped in to provide a plethora of websites, blogs, courses, and social media accounts to help new moms create routines for their babies. The overload of online tips has replaced one-on-one advice that used to be passed down to the younger generation from older relatives. When moms fail to routinize their lives into a strict schedule, they feel inadequate.
Fifty years of legal abortion across the United States has been the most significant initiation of the devaluation of motherhood. The pop-culture celebration of abortion in particular has characterized pregnancy, birth, and motherhood as hindrances to other goals. It has established a one-for-one exchange, where young women are told they cannot achieve their dreams if they have children at an inconvenient time. Instead of providing ways to do both, it insists women must choose between the two, and when they choose motherhood, they feel as if they are missing out on something else. They have the perception that if they schedule motherhood into their lives, it will be easy, which is false. Consequently, when they do have children, their mental and physical well-being go through a state of shock, and their system is understandably overwhelmed.
Motherhood is no longer considered an achievement in itself. Society has instead conditioned young women to view it as a distraction that takes them away from other pursuits. Women should be given the support to achieve their goals outside of being a mother, but this can’t be done in a way that undermines motherhood, leaving new moms feeling alone.
Postpartum depression is a real and visceral disorder, and the increased recognition of its prevalence is helpful to struggling families. However, if society changes its attitude towards mothers, and sees their contribution of raising young people as a net positive for communities, it could help quell the rising cases of this tragic mental health condition. It will provide new moms with the feeling of accomplishment that should accompany the daily work of caring for children who will be the world leaders of tomorrow. Even when the days are long, mothers will feel valuable, and society will be better for it.
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Casey DeSantis made her first solo appearance for her husband’s campaign on Thursday as she <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12273171/Casey-DeSantis-shines-solo-campaign-appearance-Iowa.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> the national version of “Mamas for DeSantis” in Iowa, where the 2024 presidential season will begin with the Iowa caucuses.
Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis’ wife first launched the statewide version of “Mamas for DeSantis” in 2022, when her husband was reelected governor in a landslide by a whopping 19 points. She signed up over 1.1 million mothers to support her husband, as he won female voters by 9%.
“It’s one thing when your policies come out after us: the mamas. It’s another thing when they come after our children. And that&#8217;s when the claws come out,” she told Iowa voters at the public event.
DeSantis also conducted a public back-and-forth with Iowa Republican Governor Kim Reynolds, who told the audience, “I didn’t run to preserve the status quo; I ran to get things done. I am a woman on a mission and I think you’re a woman on a mission, too.”
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There was a time in my life when I didn’t know if I was going to see my kids graduate from kindergarten, let alone high school. And I was able to beat that back, but I had some really long, difficult battles. As a matter of fact I remember — and the governor was getting criticized for doing this with me — but I remember every single chemotherapy appointment that I went to, and there were six of them and they were very long and they were very hard, and I had to wear this dumb cold cap on my head that was like an ice cube, you’re like in an igloo for six or seven hours, and he held my hand during every single one of them and he never left my side.
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And I’ll tell you what: when you go through something like that, and you’re in the middle of the night, scared, and you don’t know what’s going to happen, and you crawl into bed with your kids, and you’re getting hope for tomorrow that you can have some more time with them, and then you realize that God has given you more opportunities to be able to live, when you’re given that opportunity in life, what do you do with it?
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“Do I care about what a headline says? No. I care about the innocence of my children and your children,” she concluded to applause.
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We will not allow you to exploit the innocence of our children to advance your agenda.
When you come after our kids, we fight back.
We are no longer silent.
We are united.
We are Mamas for DeSantis.
&#8230;and we will elect <a href="https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonDeSantis</a> President of the United States.
Join our… <a href="https://t.co/jo6HUATaVa">pic.twitter.com/jo6HUATaVa</a>
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Speaking to voters, DeSantis turned to a prime concern for parents after the 2020 COVID pandemic debacle of children had kept from school across the nation, as her husband had championed opening schools while other states kept them closed. “It should be up to the parents to decide what education they think are best for their children. And government should, again, get out of the way,” she stated.
“It was COVID that was really what led to a lot of this parental empowerment revolution because for the first time parents were peering into the classroom, and they did not like what was being taught they saw: the sexualized curriculum being thrust in front of 5-year-olds,” she said.
She said that her husband had enabled parents “to be able to go to the schools to say ‘I want to see what kind of curriculum you&#8217;re teaching our kids.’ And if they didn&#8217;t give that information to the parent in a timely manner, they then had a right of action to be able to sue.”
DeSantis also focused on the woke issues her husband has confronted during his tenure, saying, “They&#8217;re not doing the woke Olympics, by the way, in the state of Florida. There&#8217;s no discrimination if you use the wrong pronoun.”

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Casey DeSantis Launches National Campaign ‘Mamas For DeSantis’ — In Iowa

2024 Election

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Iowa

Ron DeSantis

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Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is seeking FDA approval for a first-of-its-kind vaccine aimed at protecting infants from the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), but trial data shows the shot failed to meet one of its two main goals.
The Bivalent Prefusion F Vaccine developed by Pfizer is administered to expectant mothers during the second half of their pregnancy to protect infants against RSV. According to the late-stage <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2216480" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trial data</a>, the experimental vaccine was 82% effective in preventing severe cases of the potentially deadly virus in infants 90 days after birth, but that dropped to 69% efficacy in preventing severe infections up to 180 days after a baby is born. The Pfizer shot also failed to meet its second goal of reducing non-severe illness in newborns, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-rsv-vaccine-82-effective-vs-severe-infection-infants-final-data-shows-2023-04-05/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted Pfizer’s license for application for the vaccine in February, <a href="https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/us-fda-accepts-biologics-license-application-pfizers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the pharmaceutical company, and the agency will decide on its use by August.
“If approved, RSVpreF would help protect infants at their first breath from the devastating effects of this infectious disease, which though well-known, has been particularly evident throughout this RSV season,” said Annaliesa Anderson, Pfizer’s senior vice president and chief scientific officer of Vaccine Research &amp; Development, in February. “We look forward to progressing the review of Pfizer’s RSV maternal vaccine candidate with the FDA and other regulatory authorities, given its significant potential to positively contribute to global health in the prevention of RSV in infants.”
Pfizer studied results in 3,570 infants for the study. During the 90-day time frame, six of the babies whose mothers received the vaccine contracted severe illness compared to 33 in the placebo group, and during the 180-day time frame, 19 infants whose moms were injected came down with severe illness compared to 62 in the placebo group. 
Pfizer released the initial trial results of the new vaccine last November, and those results are still being reviewed by regulators in the U.S. and Europe, Reuters reported.
Up to 80,000 children younger than 5 in the U.S. are hospitalized as a result of RSV infections every year, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/rsv/research/index.html#:~:text=Each%20year%20in%20the%20United,younger%20than%205%20years%20old.&amp;text=58%2C000%2D80%2C000%20hospitalizations%20among%20children%20younger%20than%205%20years%20old.&amp;text=60%2C000%2D160%2C000%20hospitalizations%20among%20adults%2065%20years%20and%20older." target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Between 100-300 children under five die from the virus each year.
Pfizer faced heavy criticism earlier this year after a man identified as Jordon Walker — the company’s director of research and development, strategic operations — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/project-veritas-video-pfizer-official-says-firm-considering-ways-to-mutate-virus-via-directed-evolution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Project Veritas in a hidden camera sting that Pfizer considered mutating SARS-COV-2 through “directed evolution” to develop new vaccines. Pfizer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pfizer-denies-conducting-covid-gain-of-function-research-in-delayed-response-to-veritas-video" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> that it conducts gain-of-function research after the Project Veritas video attracted over 20 million views.
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A second video dump from Project Veritas <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pfizer-exec-appears-to-admit-there-are-concerning-impacts-on-female-reproductive-health-from-vaccine-in-round-two-of-project-veritas-sting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> Walker admitting that Pfizer’s COVID vaccine could affect female fertility.

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Pfizer Seeks FDA Approval Of First Vaccine To Protect Infants By Injecting Pregnant Mothers. Late-Stage Trial Failed To Meet One Of Two Goals.

Pfizer Seeks FDA Approval Of First Vaccine To Protect Infants By Injecting Pregnant Mothers. Late-Stage Trial Failed To Meet One Of Its Two Goals.

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A recent study <a href="https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/mental-health/3780590-dramatic-pandemic-changes-led-to-increased-stress-for-mothers-study/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> how mothers were impacted by the changes that came during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it had some surprising results. 
The study, <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2799633" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> in JAMA Network Open on Friday, involved 11,473 mothers who were all a part of the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program with the National Institute of Health.
It found two different groupings of these mothers, with one group experiencing “low change,&#8221; i.e. “&#8217;lower changes in health behaviors, fewer coping strategies, and lower social isolation,&#8217;” and the other going through &#8220;high change.&#8221;
The group of “high change” <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/974664" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> 8,412 mothers and the second group of “low change” involved 3,061 mothers. The mothers who experienced higher levels of change had more education, higher incomes, and higher cohabitation. However, this group also said financial matters were stressful more often and they had a higher likelihood of saying the COVID-19 pandemic impacted their health care. 
On average, there were more pandemic-related stress symptoms reported from the mothers who experienced higher levels of change. They &#8220;reported greater life disruptions, social isolation, and coping behaviors to mitigate the effects of the pandemic and changes to their health behavior routines,&#8221; according to the study. The group was comprised of around 66% of white mothers, as well, which was not anticipated because of the research that has shown that negative impact the pandemic had on minorities.
In both groups, mothers who were more impacted by the pandemic experienced more pandemic-related traumatic stress. However, the association was not at the same level.
“Across both clusters, higher pandemic-associated hardships, coping mechanisms, and behavior changes were associated with higher PTS, and these associations were greater in the low change cluster,” the study noted.
Theresa “Tracy” Bastain, the lead author of the study, <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/974664" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the group of scientists wanted to look at mothers because many lost their jobs and income, and also were largely in charge of of taking care of kids or teaching them when schools were disrupted.  
“It really came down to change and those mothers whose lives carried on much as they normally had, did not report as much stress,” Bastain added. “It was the mothers who had big disruptions who reported the higher levels of stress.” 
“I think it shows that we need to think about traumatic experiences like natural disasters, pandemics or mass shootings more holistically,” said Bastain. “There is a wide range of hardships that people experience from these events that we need to understand so that we can protect people from long term effects.”
A press release noted that a main conclusion of the study is that a lot of the mothers reported having symptoms of acute stress disorder, which &#8220;is a mental health problem that can occur in the first month after a traumatic event. The symptoms of ASD are like PTSD symptoms, but you must have them for longer than one month to have PTSD,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/related/acute_stress.asp#:~:text=Acute%20Stress%20Disorder%20(ASD)%20is,one%20month%20to%20have%20PTSD." target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs</a>.
“We can’t conclude from this research that these mothers will have negative mental health outcomes from the pandemic, but it raises that concern,” Bastain said.

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Study Shows Effects Of Pandemic Life Changes On Mothers

JAMA Network Open Study Shows Effects Of Pandemic Changes To Mothers' Stress Symptoms

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Nadya Suleman, who&#8217;s better known by the nickname &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/motherhood">Octomom</a>,&#8221; just shared a photo of her famous octuplets heading off to their first day of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/education">eighth grade</a>. 
The mom of 14 made headlines in January 2009 for giving birth to eight babies at once, making them the world’s first surviving octuplets. Now those kids are 13 and heading to eighth grade, Suleman shared to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/instagram">Instagram</a> in a rare photo update. 
&#8220;First day of 8th grade. Be proud of yourselves kids for being kind, respectful, and helpful to all your fellow peers, teachers and staff,&#8221; the 47-year-old wrote in the caption. “You are exceptional role models to the 6th and 7th graders. I love you. (Side note to critics: their older siblings did not want me to post a picture on their first day. I respect their choice, so should you).”
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Octomom Nadya Suleman, 47, shares photo of her eight youngest children, 13, on their first day of school as they head off to 8th grade: &#39;I love you&#39; via <a href="https://t.co/Yansv4EDot">https://t.co/Yansv4EDot</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Octomom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Octomom</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NadyaSuleman?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NadyaSuleman</a> <a href="https://t.co/k5zeOjeZwV">https://t.co/k5zeOjeZwV</a>
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The octuplets are named Nariyah, Isaiah, Maliyah, Jeremiah, Noah, Josiah, Jonah, and Makai. They were conceived via in vitro fertilization in 2008, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/octomom-nadya-suleman-shows-off-grown-up-kids-back-school-snap-proud-yourselves">reported</a>, and Suleman has faced criticism and challenges ever since. 
Suleman was a single mom of six when the eight babies were born. Fox reported that her rocky journey included a bankruptcy filing, misdemeanor welfare fraud claims, and going into rehab for Xanax addiction. The mom of 14 also worked as a stripper and made pornographic films at various points.  
She expanded on these decisions during an interview in 2019. 
After explaining how it cost $5,000 per month to run her household and that she received $1,500 worth of food stamps from the government, Suleman said she felt forced to become a porn star in 2012 as it was the &#8220;only industry&#8221; that would accept her.
&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t provide any more,&#8221; she said in an interview with the Australian show &#8220;Sunday Night,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/octomom-nadya-suleman-opens-up-about-porn-past">reported</a>. &#8220;The interviews weren&#8217;t coming as much and I couldn&#8217;t work full time. I had too many little kids.&#8221;
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to do any porn. I&#8217;d been celibate for – I can&#8217;t even count how many years – so it was a cheap self-pleasure video which is still porn,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I hit rock bottom.&#8221;
&#8220;I sold my soul to the devil — temporarily,&#8221; Suleman said, claiming her earnings for the X-rated film totaled $8,000.
She also told Fox that she quit after finding her 10-year-old daughter playing with her stripper heels.
“I picked the heel up and I threw it,&#8221; Suleman said during the interview. &#8220;It actually stuck in the screen. All of what I had suppressed — the anger, the resentment towards myself, the resentment towards the world, towards other people, towards women, and the shame I towards myself it bubbled and boiled up into rage.&#8221;

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‘Octomom’ Nadya Suleman Shares Photo Of 13-Year-Old Octuplets On Their First Day Of School

'Octomom' Nadya Suleman Shares Photo Of 13-Year-Old Octuplets On Their First Day Of School

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/miss-universe">Miss Universe</a> contest recently announced a rules adjustment that would allow more <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/women">women</a> to compete, according to a recent report.
Insider <a href="https://www.insider.com/miss-universe-will-allow-married-women-mothers-to-compete-2022-8">reported</a> on the change to the current rules, which limited participation to only single women between the ages of 18 and 28 for all 70 years of the competition. The new update will allow <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mothers">mothers</a> and married women to also compete for the Miss Universe title.
“We all believe that women should have agency over their lives and that a human’s personal decisions should not be a barrier to their success,” an internal memo seen by The National said. A source claims the memo went out to national directors last week.
“The Miss Universe Organization is always the greatest and most innovative platform of its kind and now it will be more inclusive and welcoming to mothers and married women,” national director of Miss Universe Bahrain Josh Yugen told The National. 
“For me, this is aligned with what I have been fighting for — breaking stereotypes and unlearning the stigma that the old society has forced on us from many many decades ago.”
The Miss Universe winner from 2020 also celebrated the rules update, saying it’s about time moms and wives could participate.
“I honestly love that this is happening,” Miss Universe winner Andrea Meza said. “Just like society changes and women are now occupying leadership positions where in the past only men could, it was about time pageants changed and opened up to women with families.”
“There are a lot of women that got married young or had kids in their early 20s and they always wanted to participate in Miss Universe but couldn’t because of the rules,” she continued. “Now those women can start or boost their careers in entertainment because of these changes.”
The update means a lot to Meza personally as her win was tainted when photos of her in a wedding gown were discovered online, causing a scandal at the time. It turned out the images were from a photo shoot, but the Mexican model insists it shouldn’t matter if she’s married or single.
“A few people are against these changes because they always wanted to see a single, beautiful woman who is available for a relationship,” she said, per Insider. “They always wanted to see a woman that from the outside looks so perfect that she’s almost unreachable. The former is sexist and the latter is unrealistic.”
“Just like in any other industry, women are capable of having demanding leadership positions without or with a family, it is no different in this case,” Meza concluded.

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Miss Universe Makes ‘Inclusive’ Rules Update To Allow Moms And Wives In Competition: Report

Miss Universe Makes 'Inclusive' Rules Update To Allow Moms And Wives In Competition: Report

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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, who in June 2021 grinned and refused to use the word “mother” when asked about the Biden administration using the term “birthing people,” called the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade “despicable” on Tuesday.
Over the weekend, Becerra indicated that HHS might help transport women across state lines in order to get an abortion.
On Tuesday, Becerra sneered, “On Friday, June 24, five Americans decided to use the vast power bestowed upon them by our democracy and our Constitution to unconscionably put at risk the life and health of millions of our fellow Americans. They chose to unconscionably limit Americans’ established freedom and autonomy to control their own body. Decision usually made in consultation with their doctor, not a politician. And they chose to unconscionably strip away the fundamental health care protections that every American of child-bearing age has known all their lives.”
“Friday’s Supreme Court decision was despicable, but it was not unpredictable. HHS has been preparing for this for some time,” he sniped.
In June 2021, speaking before the Senate Finance Committee hearing about the Biden administration&#8217;s fiscal year 2022 HHS budget request, Becerra was confronted by Oklahoma GOP Senator James Lankford about the removal of the word “mother” and the insertion of the term “birthing people.”
Lankford cornered Becerra about the elision of the word “mother,” asserting, “I also notice you changed a term in your budget where you shifted in places from using the term ‘mother’ to ‘birthing people’ rather than ‘mother.’ Can you help me get a good definition of ‘birthing people?’”
Becerra deflected, “Well, I’ll check on the language there, but I think if we’re talking about those who give birth I think we’re talking about —” Unable to bring himself to say “mother,” Becerra grinned, “I don’t know how else to explain it to you other than &#8230;” as his voice petered out.
Lankford pressed, “I was a little taken aback when I just read it and saw it that the term ‘mother’ was gone and it was replaced with ‘birthing people” and I didn’t know if this was a direction you were going, if there were shifts, if there were regulatory changes that are happening related to that or what the purpose of that is.”
Becerra dodged, “I think it’s probably — and again I’d have to go back and take a look at the language that was used in the budget, but I think it simply reflects the work that is being done.”
“I definitely get that; I would only say the language is important always; we don’t want to offend in our language; I get that,” Lankford said. “But would you at least admit calling a mom a ‘birthing person’ could be offensive to some moms? They don’t want to get like a ‘Happy Birthing Person’ card in May. Can you at least admit that term itself could be offensive to some moms?”
Becerra still wouldn’t admit Lankford’s argument, instead laughing, “Senator, I’ll go back and take a look at the terminology that was used and I can get back to you, but again, if we’re trying to be precise in the language that’s used.”
Lankford fired, “Mom’s a pretty good word. That’s worked for a while and I think that’s pretty precise as well.”
Becerra refusing to say “mother”:
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Becerra calling SCOTUS decision “despicable”:
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Biden HHS Secretary, Who Grinned, Refused To Say ‘Mother,’ Calls SCOTUS Roe Decision ‘Despicable’

Xavier Becerra, who has refused to use the term "mother," calls SCOTUS Roe decision "despicable."

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Roe v. Wade's Long And Brutal Legacy

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