In this conversation…
Over the last several months, the policy agenda of the pro-natalist right has become startlingly clear. What’s much less clear, though, is how the left plans to counter such red-pilled pro-baby and pro-family rhetoric—or if the left even wants to counter this rhetoric.
A few questions to consider as you listen to this conversation:
How do the center-left and the progressive-left talk about children?
How do we talk about families?
How should we talk about children, and families?
Are children a net good for society?
Are families?
What does “family” mean today?
What could it mean?
Is it acceptable for a society to want children?
Is it possible to be pro-natalist and feminist?
Does bodily autonomy necessarily require a politics of individualism?
What do we owe parents in America?
What do we owe child-free adults?
What do we owe children?
…and what if the answers to the last three questions are one in the same?
