Pop singer Chappell Roan may have topped the charts with glitter-drenched anthems like “Pink Pony Club,” but her recent comments about parenthood have ignited a cultural backlash that’s a whole lot louder than her high notes.
Appearing on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, Roan offered a sweeping—and shockingly dismissive—take on motherhood. Speaking about her friends back home in the Midwest, many of whom are married with children, Roan remarked: “All of my friends who have kids are in hell. I don’t know anyone who’s happy and has children… anyone who has light in their eyes.” If that sounds like a line from a dystopian screenplay, it’s not. It’s a worldview—the exact kind of worldview that’s being fed to Gen Z through a pipeline of celebrity disillusionment and self-centered ideology.
Chappell Roan, a Gen Z popstar who dresses in drag, claims: “All my friends who have kids are in hell. I don’t know anyone who is happy with kids.”
Fact-check: Statistically, the happiest women in America are married and have children.pic.twitter.com/SiopgEZKqx
— Media Research Center (@theMRC) March 31, 2025
The reaction? Swift, and righteous.
Conservative voices—from cultural critics to lawmakers’ spouses—have called out the sheer absurdity of Roan’s statement. The Media Research Center fired back with a fact-check: Statistically, the happiest women in America are married and have children. TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk didn’t mince words either, pointing out the contradiction of a “biological female who dresses in drag” lecturing others about fulfillment and calling her opinion “dumb” and “deranged.”
Chappell Roan, who is apparently famous, is a biological female who finds the need to identify as a female but dresses in drag … says all her friends with young kids “are in hell. I don’t know anyone who is happy with kids.”
You should not be surprised that a person as… pic.twitter.com/GDsMxA956a
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) March 31, 2025
And while Kirk’s style may be blunt, his substance is sound. The data is consistent. Studies from Harvard to Pew Research Center all point in one direction: married mothers, especially those with strong faith or community ties, report higher levels of long-term life satisfaction than their single, childless peers. Why? Because fulfillment isn’t found in music videos or magazine covers—it’s found in building something that outlives you.
Roan’s mistake isn’t just her ignorance. It’s her arrogance—the kind that assumes sleepless nights and worn-out eyes are signs of failure instead of the hard-earned badges of sacrificial love. As attorney Laura Powell aptly put it, “She mistakes self-indulgence for happiness.” That shallow, Instagram-filtered version of joy is easy to sell but leaves people starving for something real.
Hollywood is filled is unhappy people, with and without children. https://t.co/E6ziAcm15b
— Kristan Hawkins (@KristanHawkins) March 30, 2025
Others like Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins and author Danielle D’Souza Gill took it a step further: parenthood isn’t just rewarding—it’s essential to a life of purpose. As Gill put it, “Life isn’t about constant ‘happiness.’ It’s about glorifying God and leaving a meaningful legacy.”
