Rachel Wilson

If you look at child abuse, there's something called the National Incidence Study.

I have a whole breakdown of this on my sub stack too.

It's gone over the last 45 years of all the data we have from every reporting agency in the country.

It's the most comprehensive one.

For the last 45 years, children who live with married biological parents are 12 times safer on every metric, whether it's sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect.

by a factor of 12 times safer than any other living situation.

And kids that come from disrupted family living situations like mine where you got divorced parents and like dad's got a girlfriend, mom's got a new husband, those sort of things.

Those are all far, far, far unsafer for children on every level that we look at.

And then if you look at kids from fatherless homes, the risk for everything, addiction, learning disabilities, mental health problems, ending up in a juvenile facility, being homeless.

It's like between 70 to 85 percent of kids in those situations come from fatherless homes.

So what we've done over the last 50 years is take dads and husbands out of the home and replace them with the government.

And it has made women and children more vulnerable to abuse, to abandonment, to ending up on welfare, to ending up in any number of bad situations that you can think of.

It didn't protect us.

And I think if more women knew that, they would at least give it a second thought and be like, hmm.

Maybe the whole getting married and having kids thing isn't so terrifying.

We don't fearmonger women about what can go wrong if you dedicate your whole life to a career.

You know, we don't tell them, well, what if this happens?

What if you try to be a brain surgeon and then you get Parkinson's and you can never work again?

What percentage of people in this country, families in this country, require both parents to work in order to get by?

Most.