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"This Could Get Very Sad" - AOC Demands RADICAL Family Policy Shift In Viral Exchange

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🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

PBD shares a powerful dinner conversation with a father of three daughters who don’t want kids, then AOC jumps in on Instagram with a heated take on paid parental leave. The panel dives deep into family, feminism, careers, and what modern women may regret too late.

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0:00.0

Rob, can you go to the Instagram post and watch who commented on this Instagram post, which was kind of interesting.

0:05.1

So I posted this. This happened at SLS. We're having dinner. Tom, oh, you weren't with us. We're at Flagler's.

0:11.4

Paula sitting next to me, Jen sitting to my left, and I spoke to this very successful man who has three daughters, who all told them they have no plans of having kids. Okay. Good man makes a lot of money, very successful.

0:23.0

Their careers combined with today's societal pressures has caused them to second-guest starting

0:28.1

families. This mindset is becoming increasingly common. There's nothing in life that compares to having

0:33.6

children. All the money in the world, all the accolades, all the items checked off

0:37.6

the checklist. None of it comes close to the experience, Rob, if you can go a little bit

0:41.9

lower so I can read that on that side, to having a raising kids. Okay, so I say that. And then look,

0:47.3

our friend here goes on the comment section, Rob, if you can go there on Instagram. I don't know if you see it or not. I just grabbed it. Oh, okay, right there. AOC comments and she says the United States is one of

0:57.7

the only developed countries in the world that doesn't support new mothers and parents with

1:02.6

federally paternal, federal paternal leave. If we want to talk to pro-family talk, we need to walk to

1:08.1

walk by supporting paid paternal leaving, guaranteed health care, like

1:11.7

the rest of the developed world, invest in affordable child care and public education.

1:16.6

Her and I went back and forth in our DMs. We've been communicating for quite some time here.

1:21.9

But we had an interesting exchange together. Tom, when you hear this, three daughters, you got two

1:26.7

daughters. Imagine if Bailey

1:28.1

and Brooks says that, we don't want to have kids, right? What that feels like. And number two,

1:31.9

why we got here and what reasoning she's making. What do you say to that? So point, point one,

1:38.1

my daughters are not allowed to buy in into this. And I shouldn't say not allowed. My daughters don't buy into this

1:49.4

because I give them the facts and the rationale for why we have families and what we do going

1:54.4

forward. And so, and I point out the pitfalls and all the headwinds and everything you're going to

1:59.6

face. Point one. Point two, for people to say, you know, my daughters aren't going to have kids,

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