ROOKE: Leave It To The Ladies Of ‘The View’ To Give The Worst Advice To Young Americans

It won’t shock anyone that “The View” hosts are rabidly anti-traditional family values. However, their views on family are undeniably bad for society and need to be called out.

Conservative commentator Isabel Brown had urged young Americans to find the courage to get married, start families, and even have “more kids than they can afford” before feeling fully ready on Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). I was in the media section listening to Brown and the rest of the panelists speak. Nothing she said was insane or bad advice. She framed the choice to get married and have children as foundational to personal fulfillment and broader societal stability.

On Monday, the women on The View, especially co-host Sunny Hostin, criticized Brown’s advice to have more children as “reckless” due to the U.S. affordability crisis. They portrayed Brown’s message as an attack on women’s autonomy, reducing it to pressure tactics that ignore economic realities and personal readiness.

“I really think it’s reckless to be suggesting that people should have children when you now know that in this country there’s this affordability crisis,” Hostin said, adding that it’s extremely expensive for parents to afford childcare. Hostin also claims that Brown is giving young Americans advice that she may be able to follow, but that most Americans can’t.

The View’s Sunny Hostin: “I think it’s really reckless to be suggesting that people should have children in this country.” pic.twitter.com/iNRzG6AfcG

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What makes this situation even more incredible is that it seems what they really want to say, but didn’t, is that they only took issue with Brown’s advice because she is portraying it through a conservative lens rather than a far-left one. (Sign up for Mary Rooke’s weekly newsletter here!)

On Tuesday, the same show welcomed former Chicago Mayor and Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. He shared that his family prioritizes family dinners, being fully present, and being outwardly loving to one another. The audience cheered. The hosts nodded approvingly, praising his emphasis on strong parental involvement and family bonds as wise and essential. No accusations of regressivism. No lectures about autonomy or economic barriers. Just warm affirmations for centering family in daily life.

Both episodes centered around the importance of family, but when a young conservative mother delivers the advice, the hosts demonize and attack her beliefs. The tone completely changes when a veteran Democrat voices it with establishment credentials; the same emphasis on the family earned applause. (ROOKE: Man Whores Out His Pious Wife For Clout)

The nuclear family is the bedrock of our society. We should be vigorously defending against any attacks to tear it down or talk the next generation out of experiencing this blessing. If economic anxiety invalidates encouragement to have children, then we should be working to fix the economic hardships, not telling women not to have children.

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