Childfree Shaming Returns: Is It Fair? 🤔
Exploring the rise of childfree shaming, doubts about having kids, and whether women owe society motherhood. What's really happening?

Bryony Claire
424.0K views • Jan 27, 2026

About this video
Should you have kids if you're not sure? Do we owe the world children just because we have a uterus? And what on earth is going on with all the shaming and propaganda now?! Healthy gamer GG AKA Dr. Alok Kanojia (aka Dr. K) was on the Diary of a CEO podcast recently where he blamed women for not being with incels, and said we're causing a mass extinction. Jennifer Lawrence was recently on the Smartless Podcast and said people should only have kids if they are 100% sure, and we should actually be turning the questioning around to ask why it is people do want kids. And of course, the Heritage Foundation is stirring things up with their pronatalist views sending a scary huge document to Trump full of "measures" that should be implemented including a marriage bootcamp 😬
Let's connect:
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Timestamps:
00:00 the shaming only intensifies
07:00 Should you have kids if you're unsure? The regretful parent issue
20:49 Childfree? You're disgusting
26:55 the only good woman is a pregnant one - The Heritage Foundation
39:49 Closing remarks
Minnesotans - website recommended: https://thepeopleswatch.org/
Videos recommended:
@KatBlaque https://youtu.be/BqyLKo0eoOA?si=lUxt6A1SssEOYiIV
@LeejaMiller https://youtu.be/Uj7FZdjrTWU?si=2rluwOKM0TlDj1K0
Heritage foundation paper if you wanna see the scariness: https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/saving-america-saving-the-family-foundation-the-next-250-years
Book mentioned:
All the single ladies - Rebecca Traister
Sources:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/21-01-2026/auckland-just-reached-a-major-demographic-turning-point
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Childfree_vs_Childless_chart.png
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330222691_What_Do_Parents_Regret_About_Having_Children_Communicating_Regrets_Online
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/oct/16/nigel-farage-us-anti-abortion-group-women-britain
https://news.sky.com/story/nigel-farage-says-it-is-utterly-ludicrous-to-allow-abortion-up-to-24-weeks-13375431
https://ktvz.com/stacker-lifestyle/2023/10/04/how-the-cost-of-raising-a-child-has-skyrocketed-over-25-years/
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/491585/christopher-luxon-urges-kiwis-to-have-more-babies-saying-it-would-be-helpful
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/30/falling-birthrate-bridget-phillipson-education-secretary-labour
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/choose-kids-not-pets-pope-joins-giorgia-meloni-in-urging-italians-20230513-p5d840.html
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/1248444378/trump-wants-americans-to-have-more-babies
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/03/25/emmanuel-macron-france-birth-rate-falling/#:~:text=Based%20on%20average%20fertility%20rates,birth%20rate%2C%E2%80%9D%20Macron%20said.
https://www.polskieradio.pl/399/7977/Artykul/3465483,W-Polsce-urodzilo-sie-wiecej-Ukraincow-niz-Polakow-to-dezinformacja
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/08/heritage-report-promote-marriage-births/
https://apnews.com/article/heritage-foundation-marriage-families-d8aaa3b47476c3cbb53f35b27e7b23bf
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025-would-exploit-child-labor-by-allowing-minors-to-work-in-dangerous-conditions-with-fewer-protections/
https://www.newsweek.com/world-has-new-lowest-birth-rate-11343356
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-boss-south-korean-construction-161530399.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8njzr42zvo
https://theconversation.com/south-korea-election-lee-jae-myung-takes-over-a-country-split-by-gender-politics-257923
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539524000530
video haylee steinfeld by Z00mie https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RaHGOxLEDOY
https://acf.gov/ofa/programs/healthy-marriage-responsible-fatherhood
https://www.history.com/articles/1950s
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/24/liam-ramos-ice-cruelty-minnesota
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/23/politics/us-citizen-children-separated-parents-deported-ice-invs
https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/inhabitants/births-2024/#:~:text=Total%20fertility%20rate,-Live%20births%20a&text=Age%2Dspecific%20fertility%20rate%20among,it%20has%20never%20been%20lower.
https://www.nordicstatistics.org/news/record-low-fertility-in-the-nordics/
Let's connect:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/BryonyClaire
IG: https://www.instagram.com/bryonyclaire_vegan/?hl=en
business enquiries only: bryonyclaire.vegan@gmail.com
Timestamps:
00:00 the shaming only intensifies
07:00 Should you have kids if you're unsure? The regretful parent issue
20:49 Childfree? You're disgusting
26:55 the only good woman is a pregnant one - The Heritage Foundation
39:49 Closing remarks
Minnesotans - website recommended: https://thepeopleswatch.org/
Videos recommended:
@KatBlaque https://youtu.be/BqyLKo0eoOA?si=lUxt6A1SssEOYiIV
@LeejaMiller https://youtu.be/Uj7FZdjrTWU?si=2rluwOKM0TlDj1K0
Heritage foundation paper if you wanna see the scariness: https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/saving-america-saving-the-family-foundation-the-next-250-years
Book mentioned:
All the single ladies - Rebecca Traister
Sources:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/21-01-2026/auckland-just-reached-a-major-demographic-turning-point
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Childfree_vs_Childless_chart.png
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330222691_What_Do_Parents_Regret_About_Having_Children_Communicating_Regrets_Online
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/oct/16/nigel-farage-us-anti-abortion-group-women-britain
https://news.sky.com/story/nigel-farage-says-it-is-utterly-ludicrous-to-allow-abortion-up-to-24-weeks-13375431
https://ktvz.com/stacker-lifestyle/2023/10/04/how-the-cost-of-raising-a-child-has-skyrocketed-over-25-years/
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/491585/christopher-luxon-urges-kiwis-to-have-more-babies-saying-it-would-be-helpful
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/30/falling-birthrate-bridget-phillipson-education-secretary-labour
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/choose-kids-not-pets-pope-joins-giorgia-meloni-in-urging-italians-20230513-p5d840.html
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/01/1248444378/trump-wants-americans-to-have-more-babies
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/03/25/emmanuel-macron-france-birth-rate-falling/#:~:text=Based%20on%20average%20fertility%20rates,birth%20rate%2C%E2%80%9D%20Macron%20said.
https://www.polskieradio.pl/399/7977/Artykul/3465483,W-Polsce-urodzilo-sie-wiecej-Ukraincow-niz-Polakow-to-dezinformacja
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/08/heritage-report-promote-marriage-births/
https://apnews.com/article/heritage-foundation-marriage-families-d8aaa3b47476c3cbb53f35b27e7b23bf
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/project-2025-would-exploit-child-labor-by-allowing-minors-to-work-in-dangerous-conditions-with-fewer-protections/
https://www.newsweek.com/world-has-new-lowest-birth-rate-11343356
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-boss-south-korean-construction-161530399.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8njzr42zvo
https://theconversation.com/south-korea-election-lee-jae-myung-takes-over-a-country-split-by-gender-politics-257923
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539524000530
video haylee steinfeld by Z00mie https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RaHGOxLEDOY
https://acf.gov/ofa/programs/healthy-marriage-responsible-fatherhood
https://www.history.com/articles/1950s
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/24/liam-ramos-ice-cruelty-minnesota
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/23/politics/us-citizen-children-separated-parents-deported-ice-invs
https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/inhabitants/births-2024/#:~:text=Total%20fertility%20rate,-Live%20births%20a&text=Age%2Dspecific%20fertility%20rate%20among,it%20has%20never%20been%20lower.
https://www.nordicstatistics.org/news/record-low-fertility-in-the-nordics/
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