From the front lines of the mom wars, here's Bethany Mandel and Kara Kennedy.

Hello and welcome to another episode of your favorite podcast. My name is Bethany Mandel,

and I'm not joined by my co-host, but she assures me, Kara Kennedy, now mom of two, that she's

coming back and she's coming back soon.

We just have to find a time to talk.

But I am joined this week by Emily Elkins, who is vice president and director of polling at the Cato Institute.

And we are going to talk about some really interesting polling.

I know those two words never really go together.

But I promise you, it's so interesting that when I know those two words never really go together,

but I promise you it's so interesting that when I sat through a briefing of this polling data recently at an event that we were at together and Emily presented, I immediately emailed her

and said, I want to have you on my podcast because I want to have a conversation about all of

these incredible

and really depressing numbers. You guys should really buckle up. But super informative, super

interesting. And it's exactly why I started this podcast because I wanted platform to be able to

have these higher level conversations about parenting and about motherhood. Emily, thank you so much

for joining me. Absolutely, great to be here.

So tell me, I don't want to misattribute. So you did this polling in conjunction with anyone.

Like, what sort of drove you to do this polling? Oh, okay. Well, to be clear, a lot of this data

that I presented at the briefing that we were at

comes from a wide variety of sources, including government surveys and things from the CDC and so forth.

So it's from a whole source, a whole variety of sources. But what they have in common is they're

trying to understand the most important trends among young people in America today.

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