Hey, folks, it's a Sunday. That means it's time to jump into the Ben Shapiro Show mailbag reminder.

You actually have to be a subscriber over at DailyWirePlus.com in order to have your question answered in the mailbag. Katrina says, I hate that single parents have been glorified. I myself was a single mom for several years. I had my son when I was 20. He was what motivated me to get my life together, so I didn't have to rely on government handouts for the rest of my life. I have a successful career.

I've now been married for nine years.

Being a single mom was extremely difficult.

I wasn't have to rely on government handouts for the rest of my life. I have a successful career. I've now been married for nine years. Being a single mom was extremely difficult. I wasn't happy at that time. I did the best I could. I knew it wasn't what was best for myself or my son. My question is, why is single parenthood glorified? This is honestly a great question. It drives me up a wall. The reason that it's glorified is because we're a society that refuses to actually suggest

that people are sometimes responsible for their own situation.

Single motherhood virtually always happens because people have made decisions and those decisions

have led to consequences.

Having sex out of wedlock, having sex with someone to whom you are not married carries

with it the risk that you will get pregnant. And if you don't have a commitment in place, there's a high likelihood that the guy is not going to stick around under those circumstances. And there are consequences to that. But we have decided that because we're a society that wishes to shield people from the consequences of their own actions, we are now going to treat this as merely an obstacle, sort of like a disease that fell upon you. And you are therefore a hero if you, quote unquote, overcome the obstacle. So I've said this to my wife all the time. The person who is going to be featured on a TV show will be the single mom who put herself through medical school and then ended up as a doctor. The person who won't be featured on a TV show is my wife who got married, went to medical

school, had kids during medical school, and is now a doctor.

Even though my wife is a far better example of how people should make life decisions

than the woman who got pregnant out of wedlock and then made it through medical school.

It's not as dramatic a story because it turns out that actually leading a life filled with good decisions makes your life less dramatic. In fact, there's a high correlation between your life being less dramatic and your life being better. But that's not what makes for good drama. And it also undermines the narrative that the left wishes to purvey, which is that bad things that happen to people are generally not your own fault.

And therefore, society has a responsibility to alleviate you of the consequences of your

own actions.

Further note there, when you combine that with the fact that single motherhood is not

equivalently numerous across all races in American society, what you end up with is the

idea that single motherhood is praiseworthy and better because it is more prevalent among black Americans, for example, than white Americans or Asian Americans. Stacey says, I'm a teacher in California. My high school students were assigned to write an essay based on one of the principals in Detokeville's democracy in America, arguing how we can restore or protect those principles. One of my students wrote her essay on the principle of egalitarianism. She argued the principal no longer exists in America because rights are being taken away in the United States and cited the overturning of Roe, trans people not having access to health care, and laws limiting self-expression for queer people, arguing that lawmakers only care about cis straight white men. Despite these laughably weak and invalid arguments, I want to give feedback that might encourage her to re-examine her view. My question is, what feedback would you give to the students to plant

a seed of doubt in her view? So first of all, the basic idea of egalitarianism in De Tocqueville's

democracy in America is somewhat shaded. So De Tocqueville points out that egalitarianism in America

has led to widespread economic growth. It has led to extraordinary durability in sort of

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