By Michaela Gordoni
Fox News highlighted data that shows conservative women are more satisfied with life and interviewed podcast host and working mom Katie Miller.
Miller, now a podcast host, previously worked at the White House and for Elon Musk. She has three small children.
“Being a mother has made my career richer, better, fuller. made life richer, fuller, better,” she said. “Having a husband makes your life better. it doesn’t inhibit your career it ignites gasoline to the fire. If more young women and girls were told that a husband and children make your life so much better, they would do it younger.”
Data from the Institute for Family Studies shows that conservative young women (37%) are happier than their counterparts. Only 12% of liberal women say they are happy, and 28% of moderate young women say they are happy.
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Marriage and children likely contribute to more contentedness in young women.
“It isn’t this career gap where you take time off, have maternity leave and you can’t come back and be a CEO. you look Adina Freidman, CEO of NASDAQ, took part time work when she was a mother,” Miller said. “Look at Susie Wiles, young mother, went part time and then she went into becoming chief of staff in the white house.”
These women didn’t completely abandon their careers but chose to make more time for their kids.
“Erika Kirk and I actually talk about this. How do you make parenting work and have a career, right?” Miller said. “So I take the last train or the last flight out at night and you take the first one home when you are done the next day so you really maximize the time when you’re gone and working and then you minimize the time you are away from your children.”
Samuel Perry, a sociology professor at the University of Oklahoma, says as recently as 15 years ago, conservative and liberal women between ages 18 and 35 were having children at approximately the same rate. The numbers changed drastically as of last year.
About 75% of liberal women 18 to 35 were childless, compared to only 40% of conservatives.
“Liberals are leaning hard into being DINKs [Dual Income No Kids], being childless or having fewer kids, and it being very much a choice, whereas for conservatives having kids is still very much a part of what it means to be a whole person,” Perry saidv.
Erika Kirk told Fox, “From the female standpoint, it’s being able to show them that being a mother isn’t a weakness; it’s a superpower if anything. If you are a mother, something ignites. That is so important to me.”
She mentioned that she feels protective of the youth in her organization, Turning Point.
“The mother bear inside of me is like if you want to go after these kids. If you want to go after the youth, you have to go through me. I’m not going to let you touch these kids,” Kirk said.
Isabel Brown, a young mom who speaks for Turning Point and hosts a podcast for the Daily Wire, said, “It’s not true that walking down the aisle or welcoming a child into the world will somehow limit your personal freedom.”
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