Brett Cooper

This week in a now viral article, New York Magazine and The Cut, the Cut is under New York Magazine, but New York Magazine and The Cut intentionally distorted the stories of three mothers to promote their own anti-children agenda.

And the headline, you've probably seen it if you've been on X in the last 48 hours, was very simple.

It reads, I regret having children.

And so what, in my opinion, could have been a really productive conversation about motherhood and the way that society at large treats and supports mothers, or maybe doesn't support mothers, ended up being whittled down to something incredibly toxic and superficial.

I mean, look at the way they promoted this article on X. This was the tweet that got the millions and millions of impressions, rightfully so.

Sooner or later,

Everyone has to decide whether to give up lazy weekends, disposable income, and the overall peace of mind to have a baby instead.

For many of those on the fence, one anxiety looms large.

What if I make the wrong choice?

Parent regret is more common than you might think.

The r slash regretful parents subreddit alone gets around 70,000 weekly visitors who anonymously commiserate.

Though stigma makes it harder to admit in real life.

All right, so we're gonna get into all of that later, but I just want to focus on the way that they promoted this article.

Giving up lazy weekends, disposable incomes, overall peace of mind to have a baby instead.

They're basically saying you can't have a joyful life with a child.

So already we know the premise that New York Magazine and this journalist is working from.

They are already telling us that they are anti-natalist.

Now from there, they jump into talking about regretful parents, the 70,000 users who are commiserating on the subreddit, which in my opinion seems like a very small number compared to the 5 billion parents that exist on this earth.

But New York Magazine is telling us that that is a lot of parents.

But regardless, the reason why I am reading you this tweet before we actually get into