Daily Wire's Matt Walsh: “Our goal as a society should be fewer women in the workforce because a lot more of them are home raising their kids”
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From the April 9, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): Now whatever you think about the specifics of this legislation, it — you know, it is pointing in the right direction, which is trying to make it easier for moms to stay home with the kids. I mean, it says a parent staying home, but, really, we know we're talking about moms. And that's the right thing. That's the right direction. That's what our policy should be focused on. That's what our policy should be focused focused on rather than, as we talked about yesterday, maternity leave or parental leave.
This is what our goal needs to be — to have more moms in the home raising their children. And we have to not be embarrassed saying that or working towards that goal. OK. You have to be not embarrassed about saying, you know what, our goal as a society should be fewer women in the workforce because a lot more of them are home raising their kids. We need to not be embarrassed saying that because it's such an obviously good, healthy thing. And we all kinda know that at some level, I think.
Our current system that we have right now is unsustainable. I mean, it really is as simple as that. This system of having both parents leave the home every day — that just can't go on forever. It's never worked that way before at any point in history.
And when I say that, people will always respond and say, well, that's not true. You know, throughout history, women have actually been involved in all kinds of trades and professions, which, yeah, they have. And that really, by the way, exposes the lie that women have been oppressed for all of history until the middle of the 20th century. That isn't true. It is true that women have been involved in plenty of trades and professions throughout history. A lot of the guilds in the Middle Ages, for example, had female members.
But you did not have at any point anywhere what we have now, which is women en masse leaving the home all day every day so that their children are raised by strangers that the parents are paying. OK. That did not exist. Yeah, you had women who did other things aside from the dishes and and washing the clothes, but you did not have what we have now, which is all day, every day, at least five days a week, both parents are out of the home, and the kids are being raised by strangers. That did not exist. That's a system, that's a setup that has just never existed until right now, until the last few generations. It's a wholly new approach, and, and I think it's clearly a worse approach.