The day after Mother's Day, Daily Wire's Matt Walsh launches attack on single moms: “It's like an ego trip”
Walsh: “One of the reasons why we should not be throwing parades for single moms is that many of them choose to be this way”
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From the May 15, 2023, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): Single moms need much more support because they aren't getting it from the fathers of their children, which is where the support is supposed to come from. Which isn't to say, by the way, that single moms are all, you know, the victims of deadbeats who ran out on them. Far from it. In fact, one of the reasons why we should not be throwing parades for single moms is that many of them choose to be this way. They choose to be single moms. The majority of divorces are initiated by women. And the majority of divorces cite things like money and irreconcilable differences, quote unquote, as the reason for the split. So these are not all or even mostly women who had to flee from horribly abusive men. In many cases these are women who chose single motherhood as a lifestyle, believing that the father of their children is expendable. It's like an ego trip. I can do both. We don't need you. Our kids don't need you.
And this is a message that society seeks to reinforce. That's why they really want us to celebrate single motherhood. The left sees stable two parent households as an existential threat to their agenda, which they are. Children from those kinds of households are going to be less vulnerable, less susceptible to the push and pull of the greater culture. Not immune from it, obviously, but less susceptible. And that's the problem the left has with two parent households. They don't want us raising and caring for our own kids. They don't want the home to be a fortress protecting against insidious societal influences. They want our kids vulnerable, exposed. And that's why they present single motherhood as an ideal. It is ideal to them and their agenda. They just forget to mention that part.