Penna Dexter

The U.S., like most first world countries, needs more babies.

Wife, mom, and writer, Peachy Keenan (not her real name) addresses the population crisis in her book, Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War. She told her audience at the 2025 Natalism Conference that the best and easiest way to raise birthrates is to “make motherhood great again.”

But first, we must make marriage great again. Peachy says it’s best for babies if they are “born to married parents who are their biological mother and father.” If they could, she adds, babies “would choose to be with their mother as much as possible.” If mothers can’t be with their children full time, it’s at least better if they “aspire to be with their babies…and not treat baby’s demands like crushing inconveniences or career suicide.”

Recent surveys show fewer young women see the men they encounter as marriage material. Hollywood encourages this phenomenon: the reimagined Snow White is a “political leader” who doesn’t need a man.

Peachy decries “the default factory setting of American women these days,” which is “to jettison marriage and family in favor of living their best lives.”

She recommends we focus our attention on women who are more likely to want marriage and children: conservatives, Christians, and — yes — Republicans. They should be encouraged, she says, to marry younger. She warns women, “even with IVF, your chance of giving birth plummets dramatically as you get older.”

Peachy has concluded that fixing the population crisis will involve “approaching life from a ‘Trad’ direction” — doing things “the old-fashioned way.”

She says the way to become a trad wife is to be a trad single, a trad undergrad. Meet your peers in person. Perhaps attend a Christian or conservative college. Boys coming out of these schools are “highly motivated to make themselves into the kind of man one of these girls might want to marry.”

If babies come, love them well.