JD Vance’s comments betray a serious misunderstanding of where the world is heading in the first half of the 21st century
Donald Trump and JD Vance: the share of childless Americans under 50 who say they are unlikely to ever have children rose to 47% in 2023, a 10 percentage point jump from 2018, a Pew study shows. Photograph: Doug Mills/New York Times
Her comments sparked a wave of outrage after they appeared in the Times newspaper one Saturday. By Monday, Leadsom had pulled out of the race. I say “happily” because Vance’s comments are not just astronomically offensive and politically witless, they also betray a serious misunderstanding of where the world is heading in the first half of the 21st century.
Consider the always fraught matter of deciding who gets to take holidays when in a team. Speaking from personal experience, if you are the only childless employee in a team, it takes a certain level of temerity to insist on taking leave in school holidays if it means a parent of school-aged children has to keep coming into the office. I imagine resistance will be easier once the ranks of the childless grow.
Sadly this does not work so well if you need to be on deck for important events or projects that are often arranged to avoid peak family holiday periods. The rise of child-free workers may well change that scheduling and also the amount of work assigned.
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