Pro-Natalist, Leading Advocate for Big Families, Smacked Son, Age 2, During an Interview  (2024)

Pro-Natalist, Leading Advocate for Big Families, Smacked Son, Age 2, During an Interview

I am on neither side here – I am neither anti nor pro natalist.

My view is that if a person wants to have children, great (so long as they’re having children because they sincerely want to, not out of societal or family pressure), and if they do no want to have children, great.

This goes to show that parenthood, contrary to what my fellow Conservatives and many obsessively pro-parenthood types say, does not make people more mature, godly, loving, or responsible.

(Link): Dad (pro natalist) influencer’s wild explanation for why he thinks smacking his toddlers across the face is acceptable

May 27, 2024

A pro-natalist influencer dad has given a wild theory about why he thinks hitting children is good for them in the long-run after he slapped his toddler in the face in front of a journalist.

Malcolm Collins, 37, left a Guardian journalist ‘appalled’ after he smacked his two-year-old son in the face as they dined at a restaurant in his hometown of Valley Forge on the outskirts of Philadelphia on Saturday.

The boy, called Torsten Savage, knocked the table with his foot, causing it to wobble, and his influencer father reached over and smacked him in the face so loudly it was caught on the reporter’s tape recorder.

At the time, they had been discussingfather-of-elevenElon Musk, who shares Malcolm’s enthusiasm for pronatalism – an ideology promoting high birth rates.

After hitting his child he continued the conversation as though nothing had happened. …

(Link): Leading advocate for big familiessmacked son, 2, during an interview — now he says trolls want to take his kids away

By Chris Nesi
Published May 26, 2024

The leader of the “pronatalist” movement supported by Elon Musk that encourages families to have lots of children to stave off population decline is under fire for slapping his toddler in the face in themiddle of a news interview.

“Multiple people called [child-welfare services] over this. There’s now an active movement to take our kids away,” Malcolm Collins, 37, a dad of three who co-founded the foundation with his pregnant wife, Simone, 36, told The Post on Sunday.

Guardian journalist Jenny Kleeman, who interviewed the couple in and around their home in Valley Forge, Penn., for the weekend feature, has described being left “speechless” by what she witnessed and devoted the final quarter of her lengthy article to recounting the incident.

Malcolm explained that the family uses corporal punishment — which is legal in Pennsylvania where the couple lives — only as an in-the-moment corrective action during potentially dangerous situations.

Such situations apparently included when his 2-year-old son Torsten “knocked the [restaurant] table with his foot” and nearly caused it to topple over during the interview.

“That fell into the category of something that could cause serious harm to himself or others. At a table full of infants, knocking it over could easily kill someone,” said Malcolm, whose other children are ages 4 and 16 months.

Malcolm defended the family’s “bopping system” as a personal decision they’ve made but said he wouldn’t recommend it for every parent.

He said much of the outrage the interview sparked is the result of people trying to conflate “light discomfort with abuse.

“This is where trigger warnings come from or the idea that being offended or offending someone is a form of violence,” he said. …

Responses on X to the article were primarily negative, with some lobbing insults or threats the couple’s way.

“Hey man what’s your address I just gotta come over and correct your behavior with a few bops,” one user wrote.

Another warned, “Your kids will hate your child beating ass, if they don’t already.” …

The Collinses, who have two boys and a girl, are expecting another girl any day. They told The Guardian they plan on having at least seven children.

The fruitful lifestyle that the couple advocate is unconventional but not fringe, counting a coterie of prolific tech billionaires as supporters.

This includes Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, a father of five who in 2022 donated nearly $500,000 to the Collins’s foundation, and dad-of-11 Elon Musk, who warned in 2022 that “population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilisation than global warming.” …

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