Since he was announced as Donald Trump's running mate in the 2024 presidential election, JD Vance has been at the center of controversy after controversy, and now, it seems there's another to add to the list. Vance's support of a controversial report that attempted to blame rising divorce rates on factors such as pornography and premarital sex has resurfaced, and the fact that the organization which published the report has ties to Project 25 isn't helping, either.
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Vance wrote the intro to the report.
As Business Insider noted, the report, which is titled the "Index of Culture and Opportunity," was published in 2017 by the Heritage Foundation — the same organization behind Project 2025.
Vance wrote the intro to the report, which features essays from conservatives about their ideas on what a traditional American family should look like.
He wrote that the American dream is 'in crisis.'
His intro touches on Americans' pessimistic views about what the future will look like for their children, tying that back to what happens in communities — including more children being raised in single-parent households and fewer people going to church. He endorsed the essays that would follow his intro, calling them "admirable."
The essays in the report are pretty troubling.
One of the essays, which was written by George Mason University law professor Helen M. Alvaré, blamed an increase rate of divorces on factors such as living together, having sex or having a child before marriage, and watching pornography.
"Pornography is also increasingly associated with relationship troubles, including greater divorce risks — interestingly, especially if married women watch it," she wrote. "Habits begin early. Young children increasingly access pornography by accident or on purpose."
One essay claimed that IVF is 'harmful.'
Jennifer Lahl wrote that undergoing IVF treatment can cause "a whole host of risks to women's short term and long term health."
"These limits need to be discussed in light of the new novel 'solutions' that lure people into thinking that we can defer motherhood to fit our own timeline," Lahl wrote. "It also means that we need to stop practices that may bring harm to others: the children born from high-tech pregnancies as well as the women who are exploited for their healthy reproductive capacities."
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Vance also gave the keynote speech at an event to promote the report.
In the speech, he called the report's mission "so worthwhile," leading people on X (formerly Twitter) to question the vetting process that Vance underwent before becoming Trump's vice presidential pick.
One person wrote, "weird is an understatement when it comes to Vance."
