Proof That Liberals Make the Crappiest Parents on Earth
Kamala’s stepdaughter Ella Emhoff probably didn’t mean to kick open a big ol’ cultural door, but she did.
Ella, who we’re told is a beautiful model, recently wondered out loud about SSRIs, anti-anxiety meds, long-term use, and what happens when people try to come off them. This was more than just random curiosity. Her X post points out a much larger problem with liberal parenting and the therapy-heavy culture that has engulfed it. So many young people were raised inside this messed-up world of labels, prescriptions, diagnoses, medication, emotional coddling, and political and climate panic. Meanwhile, all the old-school basics like discipline, structure, faith, resilience, boundaries, and responsibility got chucked out the window.
And now look around… look what’s blossomed from that.
A lot of young people on the left are completely overwhelmed by life, convinced the world is collapsing, and trained to treat every uncomfortable feeling like it needs a diagnosis, a pill, a protest sign, or some orange-colored villain.
Ella says she’s been on SSRIs for more than a decade, maybe close to fifteen years, and she’s only now considering the long-term impact and how difficult it is to stop taking them.
Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter of former Vice President Kamala Harris, from 16 December last year:
“…I’m just sitting here crocheting, waiting for a friend, and I was just listening to this podcast that The Wall Street Journal put out about SSRIs and anti-anxiety meds and kind of the over-prescription of them in America.
“And it was making me think a lot because I’ve been on SSRIs for over a decade, almost fifteen years probably, and they were calling out the lack of research on long-term use of these things.
“They were calling out the lack of information that doctors give about coming off of these meds and kind of the psychological effects they can have.
“And it really got me thinking how little I’ve thought about that, naively, obviously.
“But I’ve noticed that every time I’ve gone off of it for a week or missed it or for whatever reason, like, it has been really hard for me, and I’ve had a really hard time.
“And I guess this is just something I was wondering if you guys have thought about or relate to or kind of consider when you’re thinking about going on meds like that.
“Because I don’t know if this is something that I feel like is being talked about enough because I feel like so many of us are on these meds, and this is, like, actually happening.
“Like, people get off of them, and they kind of break down, and it can be really bad. So yeah, I guess I just want your general thoughts.”
That’s a pretty revealing little monologue. And it does say a heck of a lot about parenting, without ever mentioning it.
So, how did so many young people end up in this mess? Why are so many kids and young adults anxious, depressed, medicated, gender-confused, and unable to handle ordinary stress? And why does this seem so much more common in liberal circles that have mocked traditional families, discipline, faith, structure, and conservative parenting?
Well, there’s actually research that helps answer this question: conservatives are better parents and raise happier, mentally stable kids.
A study from the Institute for Family Studies and Gallup backs up what a lot of people have noticed for eons now… conservative parents are raising happier, more mentally stable teens than liberal parents.
And the reason isn’t that complicated. Conservative parents are more likely to mix love and warmth with rules, structure, expectations, and actual discipline. They’re not trying to be their kid’s emotional support roommate.
They’re actually parenting.
Conservative and very conservative parents are more likely to raise mentally healthy teens compared to liberal parents, according to a new study from the Institute for Family Studies and Gallup.
The results drop amid a nationwide mental youth crisis among youth, stemming partly from the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic. A report released in February by the NC Child Fatality Task Force found that the youth suicide rate has nearly tripled in two decades. North Carolina lawmakers included additional funding for mental health services in the new state budget.
The IFS/Gallup report found that “the most important factor in the mental health of adolescent children is the quality of the relationship with their caregivers.” The key driver is parents who have an “authoritative” style that combines “affection and attentiveness to children’s needs with structure and requirements for pro-social, responsible behavior.”
In contrast, liberal parents are more likely to have a permissive parenting style and “are the least likely to successfully discipline their children.”
“[C]onservative parents enjoy higher quality relationships with their children, characterized by fewer arguments, more warmth, and a stronger bond, according to both parent and child reporting,” the report concluded.
“There is no meaningful public effort to educate parents on the best-practice parenting styles that have long been associated with teen mental health,” said the report’s author Jonathan Rothwell, principal economist at Gallup and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, in a statement. “The results of our report should be seen as empowering parents to play the lead role in guiding their children to healthy psychological development. Their actions, judgments, and relationships are key to their teen’s mental health.”
For years, liberal culture has pushed the idea that boundaries are oppressive, discipline is mean, consequences are traumatic, and kids should be affirmed through every mood, phase, tantrum, and identity crisis. Then everyone acts stunned when those same kids grow up fragile, anxious, angry, and emotionally unsteady.
Conservative parenting, at its best, gives children something much sturdier. Love, yes. Warmth, yes. But also rules, expectations, responsibility, and the understanding that life will not always bend around your feelings.
That does not make every conservative family perfect, and it does not mean every liberal family is a disaster. But the pattern is real, and the results are showing up everywhere.
Which brings us to another uncomfortable point: conservatives are also generally happier.
Parents pass down more than rules… they pass down worldviews, emotional habits, expectations, and the way they see life.
So, if conservatives are generally happier and more grounded, it makes sense that their kids would benefit from that stability as well.
Studies consistently show that conservatives report higher levels of happiness and life satisfaction than liberals, a phenomenon often called the “ideological happiness gap”. This gap exists across various demographics and countries, with research suggesting that conservative ideologies, such as believing in a meritocracy, rationalizing inequality, and lower levels of neuroticism, contribute to increased, consistent happiness
This “happiness gap” is real.
If your entire worldview tells you the country is evil, the system is fascist, your neighbors are dangerous, the climate is ending, gender is fluid, Trump’s Hitler, cops are Nazis, parents are oppressors, and every verbal disagreement is violence, how exactly is a kid supposed to grow up calm and well-adjusted?
Sadly, this is a parenting style.
And we’re seeing what happens. All the rage, confusion, meltdowns, political violence, and the bizarre obsession with Trump and the belief that every bad feeling must be caused by him or some external villain on the right. It’s not normal. This is insanity.
The truth is, President Trump isn’t a supervillain. He’s a normal, albeit pretty extraordinary, man. But the left has turned him into a monster under the bed, and plenty of their own people are unable to cope with the world they were taught to fear and hate.
America is dealing with a generation of young left-wing people who are overmedicated, labeled, indulged, and terrified instead of strengthened. And the evidence keeps pointing in the same direction: kids do better with structure, love, discipline, and parents who aren’t emotionally hostage to every liberal news cycle.
When it’s all said and done, maybe the old-fashioned stuff isn’t so backward after all.
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