During one of the pregnancies of Usha Vance, her mother took a sabbatical from teaching biology in California and stayed with JD and Usha to take care of their kid for a year. Ohio senator and Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance spoke about it in an interview in 2020 — but in the most disagreeable manner possible as claimed by his critics.The audio has gone viral drawing flak as after ‘childless cat ladies’, ‘post-menopausal female’ will bite him hard.So in the 2020 podcast with Eric Weinstein, JD Vance was talking about how important grandparents are for the raising of the kids and said the same happened with his kids also as his mother-in-law took a sabbatical from her job to raise his kid. Eric called it a “weird, unadvertised feature of marrying an Indian woman”. “It’s in some ways, the most transgressive thing I’ve ever done against sort of the hyper-neo-liberal approach to work and family,” Vance said. “My wife had this baby seven weeks before she started the clerkship, [she’s] still not sleeping any more than an hour and a half in a given interval. And her mom just took a sabbatical. She’s a biology professor in California, just took a sabbatical for a year and came and lived with us and took care of our kid for a year.”JD said it was a painfully economically inefficient decision and she (his mom-in-law) could have just kept her job and paid wages in part for a help who could do the world. “That is the thing that the hyper-liberalized economics wants you to do. The economic logic of always prioritizing paid wage labor over other forms of contributing to a society is to me … a consequence of a sort of fundamental liberalism that is ultimately gonna unwind and collapse upon itself,” Vance said. During the conversation, Eric said in theory the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female is to take care of their grandchildren. “Yes,” Vance said. JD Vance has three children — Evan, 6, Vivek 4, Mirabel 2 and he said he’s angling for baby no. 4‘Are you a post-menopausal woman?’JD Vance had a troubled family growing up which turned him into an out-and-out family man, much in love with his wife. He is pro-family, pro-children and called Democrat leaders ‘childless cat ladies’ drawing major flak. He clarified that his target was not those who could not become parents but those who opted to not become parents. Usha too stood by JD’s point of view. But nothing redeemed JD from being called out as a sexist and misogynist man and now his old audio on post-menopausal women only invites more trouble. Director of Rapid Response for Kamala Harris, Ammar Moussa, wrote on X: “I’m sorry – who is out here just out here talking about the ‘postmenopausal female’ and their role in society?”Democratic Illinois Congressman Sean Casten added: “Are you a post-menopausal woman? Did you quit your job to look after your grandkids? Because if you didn’t, you are not meeting your ‘whole purpose’ according to JD Vance.”
