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\u201cThe View\u201d co-host Sara Haines has defended earlier comments she made on marriage and children, stating her views were being \u201cmisconstrued.\u201d Haines had previously appeared on the show where she criticized conservative influencer Isabel Brown\u2019s remarks at CPAC. During the event, 28-year-old Brown encouraged young women to \u201cgrow up and have the courage to get married and have kids \u2014 more kids than they can afford before they think they’re ready.\u201d Discussing Brown\u2019s comments, Haines said that Brown\u2019s comments wraps a woman’s worth up in her ovaries in a way that for too long has happened.\u201d \u201cThe fact that we keep putting this on women that their only worth in society, politics, policies, is if they produce a baby or have a husband, is the stupidest, most old-fashioned thing. We have come too far,\u201d she said. \u201cThe world has over 8 billion people. We no longer need to force people to procreate and pump out babies. We have arrived here. Women and girls now have a choice. Let them do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haines\u2019s comments were quickly picked up by conservatives as being anti-marriage and family. \u201cSarah Haines on The View says women don\u2019t need marriage or kids like it\u2019s some outdated idea\u2026 but ignores the simple reality that every single person on earth came from a woman,\u201d wrote conservative commentator Brandon Tatum<\/a>. \u201cThis \u2018boss bae\u2019 mindset isn\u2019t empowering\u2014it\u2019s emotional, disconnected, and completely detached from how society actually functions.\u201d Brown also weighed in, claiming \u201cThe View\u2019s\u201d producer\u2019s had refused to let her on the show to discuss her viewpoint. \u201cI genuinely harbor no ill will toward any of these women – I\u2019ve never even met any of them!!\u201d she wrote<\/a>. \u201c\u2026but do remain utterly stumped at their lack of social awareness for why people across the cultural and political spectrum didn\u2019t react well to their insane attack on the family & motherhood specifically.\u201d<\/p>\n

Appearing on the \u201cBehind the Table<\/a>\u201d podcast, Haines tried to clarify her position. \u201c”My issue was with the greater message. I love babies. I love being married. I love all those things. But there’s so much pressure in this world on women to define themselves by if they’re married and if they have babies,\u201d she said. She added that her own opinion was based on her experiences and those of women around her and that getting married and having children may not be easy for everyone. \u201c”My take comes from a place of empathy and life lived,” Haines said. “Knowing so many women, having been single, like dating for years and not knowing if I was going to find my person to get married,\u201d she said. \u201cThey make it sound like this easy choice. Get married, have kids. There are so many amazing women I know that aren’t meeting people.\u201d She claimed that Brown had \u201cmisconstrued\u201d her viewpoint. \u201c”I know too many women that, for whatever reason, aren’t married, don’t have kids, and they matter,” she said. \u201cI would never want to dim someone’s light in life by saying they matter less because of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe View\u201d co-host Sara Haines has defended earlier comments she made on marriage and children, stating her views were being \u201cmisconstrued.\u201d Haines had previously appeared on the show where she criticized conservative influencer Isabel Brown\u2019s remarks at CPAC. 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