JD Vance, Childfree Adults, and Freakish Obsessions

The Perverse Saga of Nonsensical Right-Wing Rhetoric

Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs
4 min readSep 8, 2024

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JD Vance from WikiCommons

One can only wonder about Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance’s peculiar and freakish obsession with people who do not have children! He disturbingly targets women who are absent of biological youtu.be/v6YraRP4jbw?siG offspring as “childless cat ladies” (apparently being an adoptive parent or stepparent does not qualify) and perversely states that child-free Americans are “more sociopathic” than Americans with kids and that such individuals make the US “less mentally stable.”

There’s more! As he sees it, no one absent of children has a “direct stake” in the nation. Although, interestingly, he has urged people embroiled in domestic physical discord to remain in violent marriages for the sake of their children, citing his grandparents — one of whom tried to murder the other — as a requisite example. Go figure.

At a Center for Christian Virtue forum in 2021, Vance is heard saying the following: “So many of the leaders of the left, and I hate to be so personal about this, but they’re people without kids trying to brainwash the minds of our children, and that really disorients me, and it really disturbs me. [American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten] doesn’t have a single child.

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Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs

Historian, Syndicated Columnist, Public Speaker, Social-Cultural Critic. Professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies, at East Tennessee State University.