I am what JD Vance would have called a single cat lady.

Actually, I don’t have, nor do I particularly like, cats. I am more along the lines of a single black Lab lady, or a single bearded dragon lady. But the label still matches my civil status.

I have neither spouse nor spawn, which puts me in the demographic targeted by the Republican VP candidate in his critical commentaries on the state of civilization.

And guess what? I agree with him.

I was not offended when I heard Vance make his offhanded comment about the current vice president. He wasn’t being cruel or misogynistic, despite the hue and cry from progressive women and the men they are not having children with.

He was making an astute observation about the drastic sea change in societal standards that has taken place over the last few decades, and why it’s so problematic.

Vance understands the value and importance of women, and if you read his own memoir, which reads like the most fantastic fiction, he owes his life and his success to his grandmother and his older sister.

At a personal level, some of the most important women in my own life were childless, namely, the nuns who raised........

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