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These days, it is clear that modern feminists hate motherhood and push a culture that tells women to fear it and worship independence at all costs. They promise you will be free if you skip the family, freeze your eggs, and sign up for childless hustle culture — endless work, solo adventures, shallow hookups, and no roots.
Childless hustle culture is the promise that freedom means doing life alone. In reality, it leaves women feeling busy yet empty, chasing a freedom that never truly satisfies.
When I was young, feminists sold it to us with the phrase, You can have it all. But they never said what it would cost.
Nowadays, they wrap it in glossy hashtags and influencer reels. Same lie, new packaging. Same emptiness when you realize the job title will never hold your hand at the end of your life.
You see it in every scroll, every feed, every headline. But real freedom is not the hollow version they are selling. Real freedom is loving what they tell you should hold you back, choosing family, legacy, and responsibility over isolation, burnout, and performative self-care that never quite fills the void.
Think pieces praise child-free celebrities for focusing on themselves, while viral videos mock big families and stay-at-home moms as backwards or brainwashed.
Once upon a time, feminism claimed it would lift women up. But as The Federalist points out, modern feminism has twisted that promise into a threat: have a baby and kiss your dreams goodbye. Feminist ideologues and their media allies brand motherhood as a penalty, a sentence that ruins your body, kills your ambition, and leaves you stuck behind everyone else who chose the so-called liberated path.
Motherhood, meanwhile, has become secondary or optional, like getting a driver’s license or getting braces. Each requires an investment, but performing each shouldn’t get in the way of my primary focus, which is my job. Our culture emphasizes work, self-actualization, and autonomy over relationships. Young women today at prestigious colleges and law firms are being encouraged to freeze their eggs to put off having children until they are older and ready (although their bodies may not be). Few think about the real value behind motherhood not just among individuals but for the broader society. Sadly, when women do start thinking about it is when the reality hits that maybe they won’t have the family or children they expected to have. – The Federalist
But if you scratch the surface, you find regret. Quiet confessions from women who did everything right by feminist standards and ended up with careers that cannot love them back or an empty apartment echoing with what-ifs.
The message is constantly and painfully always the same
These women push the “women must have it all” nonsense because they inherently believe that motherhood is not enough, and not an important endeavor enough for a woman to take on without adding something else https://t.co/8WXKKDibE2
— The Feminist Turned HouseWife (@turnedwife) July 3, 2025
And who props this up? The media. Isabel Brown wrote it perfectly at The Daily Signal:
If there’s one thing the corporate media hates more than tradition, it’s motherhood.
We’ve seen it time and again, from the glossy magazine covers glorifying “child-free” living to the snide late-night jokes about “breeders” and “stay-at-home moms.” It’s no longer subtle. The war on motherhood is loud, proud, and broadcast 24/7 across every major platform. And make no mistake—this isn’t just about personal choice. It’s a coordinated cultural campaign to devalue perhaps women’s most essential role: being a mother.
While I’ve always been aware of this assault on motherhood, it became increasingly clear to me after I found out I was pregnant last fall. Suddenly, this wasn’t an abstract concept, but very real propaganda attempting to convince young women like me that babies weren’t blessings, but burdens. I soon discovered I was expecting a daughter, and the noise got even lounger. – The Daily Signal
She is right. And here is what I have seen over the decades: when I was young, feminism and its media mouthpieces told us we could have it all, the big career, the perfect family, and endless freedom. But the unspoken part was that family always came last. Babies were optional, maybe someday, maybe never. That promise sounded bold but turned out to be a trap that left too many women alone, burnt out, and missing the family life they quietly hoped for all along.
Isabel’s generation is seeing it too. The noise, the sneers, the constant push to treat babies like burdens instead of blessings. The only difference is that now the propaganda never stops. It was once featured in magazines and on talk shows. Now it’s in your feed, group chats, podcasts, and ads. The war on motherhood is louder than ever, but it is not a new phenomenon.
Here is the truth they cannot stand. Choosing motherhood and declaring it worth every sacrifice is the ultimate act of defiance. Women like Isabel see it happening right now. Women like me have watched it play out for decades.
Of everything I have done in my life — serving my country, seeing the world, working countless jobs — nothing compares to motherhood. Even with all the sleepless nights, the doubts, the heartbreaks, the letting go, the holding tight, the moments you wish you could freeze forever — I would choose it again without hesitation. Now, as a grandmother, I know it is the one thing truly worth doing twice over.
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S Cseh says: Motherhood is a sacred thing. Many reject it because they reject God.
GWB says: Once upon a time, feminism claimed it would lift women up.
But it never really has. It’s not “modern” feminism that is at issue, but feminism, itself. It has always been about envy of the male status and position. And the complaint against modern feminism that “No, you can’t have it all” is the exact same complaint of men throughout the centuries. You can’t go out there and strive to be the big boss and expect to actually have time with your kids and such. No one can do it, really. But all the feminists can see is “They live large and have power and status, and I want that!” Regardless of how much the men in such situations might be truly lonely or unfulfilled.
Our culture emphasizes work, self-actualization, and autonomy over relationships.
Actually, our modern culture emphasizes status received from work and selfishness. It doesn’t really speak to “vocation” or the Protestant work ethic, anymore. And, even apart from relationships, it emphasizes self over responsibility.
when the reality hits
Yes, because God (or Evolution, if you swing that way) designed women’s bodies to produce children when they’re still young enough to chase after them and handle all of the activity required to raise a child. (Which is significantly higher than the activity level required to simply feed and house them until they’re old enough to kill on their own.)
Here is an example.
perhaps women’s most essential role: being a mother
Women had 2 roles at creation:
To work with man and tend the Garden
To work with man to be fruitful and multiply.
Interesting that men had those 2 roles, too.
But if you scratch the surface, you find regret.
So very often the same with men. Heck, look at A Christmas Carol. It’s all about not making “humanity my business.” (I happen to think it’s off in its aim, but that’s a discussion for another time.)
glorifying “child-free” living
Ah, but that’s not really what they’re aiming for. Though Brave New World would go all the way to community creches where the children don’t even know who their biological parents are, mostly Progs just want to do away with the hard work and the pain and suffering that goes with raising children. They want them but more as a fashion accessory (or the equivalent of an emotional support animal, to cuddle with when they’re worn out), with someone else doing all the hard work. Day care is to kids as dishwashers are to eating. And for some, they’ve outsourced so totally that kids are more like going out to eat.
nothing compares to motherhood
The same goes for fatherhood. But I have to go out and work to provide for my family. I don’t work because I want to climb the corporate ladder or become famous. I work to put food on the table and a roof over their heads. Because they are the most important thing in my world.
You just saved my poor arthritic fingers a fair bit of typing. Well said, sir!
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