Having been attacked by Oprah Winfrey and numerous celebrities for his comment on “childless cat ladies miserable with their own lives,” the truth behind the impolitic words of Vice-Presidential nominee J.D. Vance has been overlooked. An important new essay by 2023 Restoring Our Faith Summit speaker Mary Eberstadt in First Things explains the devastating social, economic and psychological effects on Western societies which are no longer having children. Read the full essay here.
As Eberstadt points out, the social isolation in Europe, North America and East Asia has caused an “epidemic” of loneliness and surveys indicate that women across the West are less content with their lives, even as they have all the modern conveniences and career success.
