Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who has labeled everything from Facebook to firearms a public health emergency, has identified a new threat to the nation’s collective mental health: Parenting. In a 36-page advisory, the nation’s top doc laments the feelings of “guilt and shame” that “have become pervasive” among a generation of unusually stressed and lonely parents, declaring the mental health of parents “an urgent public health issue.”

Murthy predictably uses his platform to call for a further expansion of the government bloat already inflated by the annual $2 trillion deficits under President Joe Biden and Vice President Harris. And even when discussing parental loneliness, Murthy laughably refuses to use the words “marriage” or “spouse” even once. He instead pointed out that the less lonely and anxious parents often have the “support of a committed co-parent, extended family, and friends.”