The Trump Administration Isn’t Pro-Family. It’s Pro-Patriarchy.
So-called pronatalist policies to increase the birth rate often involve rewarding the “right” kind of family—an exercise that’s hard to separate from its sexist and racist origins.
If only the pronatalist turn in American politics were confined to one bespectacled, self-promoting husband and wife team starring in countless profiles over the last handful of years. “Meet the ‘elite’ couples breeding to save mankind,” is how the The Telegraph introduced Simone and Malcolm Collins in 2023. …
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