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George Pyle: We have built a world that doesn’t welcome children. Deal with it.

Maternal anxiety is reaching ‘crazy high rates’ in Utah, and experts aren’t sure why,” was the headline on the article by Becky Jacobs, one of our excellent Report for America staffers.

Why are new mothers, and mothers-to-be, experiencing levels of anxiety ranging from high to debilitating to suicidal?

Simple. Men are pigs and Republicans are in charge. (I could go all religion on you and blame The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. But having already tagged a gender and a political party, that would have been redundant.)

As I have often said in this space, the world and its economic cues have changed forever due to technology.