The piece includes this enraging line: “Marriage and parenthood are leaps of faith that require individuals to go from thinking and choosing for ‘me’ to thinking and choosing for ‘we.’" I think of all the people w/o children working in education, health, the environment, social services, gov't etc.

How far is this quote from Vance's claim that Kamala Harris shouldn't be president because she has no biological children? That Randi Weingarten knows nothing about education because she has no biological children? Not far at all. So close it's touching.

The idea that you need children to not be a solipsist is the basis for one of the oldest homophobic smears

Takes a lot of chutzpah for boomers, after hoarding all of the wealth and saddling millennials with astronomical levels of debt, to call younger generations selfish for finding ways to cope with their mess

Not to mention people whose 'we' they prioritize are other adults -- romantic partners, relatives, or chosen families -- and are already finding it unsustainable to keep everyone going without kids in the mix.