Judging by its press since COVID began, you might think that married motherhood is a pathway to misery and immiseration. "Married heterosexual motherhood in America, especially in the past two years, is a game no one wins," wrote Amy Shearn in one of many New York Times op-eds about the difficulties of marriage in the time of COVID. "Moms Are Not Okay: Pandemic Triples Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in New Mothers," read a headline in Forbes. Bloomberg went so far as to suggest that family life was a financial dead end for women in an article headlined "Women Who Stay Single and Don't Have...
