Mothers across America are experiencing Betty Draper-level breakdowns, at least according to the legacy media. Headline after headline during the pandemic offered the same story: Like the fictional 1950s housewife from Mad Men, women with children were reaching a breaking point.

If you looked to the internet during the pandemic to see how married women and mothers were faring, you’d get headlines such as Forbes’s “Moms Are Not Okay: Pandemic Triples Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in New Mothers” and Bloomberg’s “Women Who Stay Single and Don’t Have Kids Are Getting Richer.”