Matt Walsh is Right: You Won’t Regret a Large Family

by Paul Batura | March 10, 2025 | Family

The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh isn’t the type of person you’d characterize as a syrupy, sentimental, Mister Rogers-inspired soul.

A conservative provocateur, the popular podcaster, filmmaker and author has forged a reputation for his straight-forward, no-nonsense style of engagement. Whether it’s hosting his daily show or the blockbuster documentaries, What is a Woman? or Am I Racist?, Walsh isn’t afraid of stepping on toes or offending leftist sensibilities.

Then there are the unflattering profiles of him by mainstream outlets eager to discredit and undermine him. In many ways, these only seem to add fuel to his fire. Walsh seems to even enjoy the unhinged attacks. Adding to his public persona as something of curmudgeon is his own sass and crankiness.

But nobody is one-dimensional, and Matt Walsh is a lot more than just a conservative media sensation.

Married to Alissa since 2011, Matt and his wife have six children. He shared some thoughts about them over the weekend – sentiment that threatens to jeopardize his reputation as a garrulous grump.

Here’s what he wrote on Facebook:

Having a large family is the best. I know it won’t surprise you to hear me say that, since I’m certainly biased with six of my own. But I can tell you firsthand that there’s nothing like coming home to a house full of energy, laughter, and love. It’s chaos, sure. But it’s the best kind of chaos.
Just the other day, I walked in to find my 5-year-old daughter sitting at the counter, coloring in one of her princess books. The second she saw me, she dropped everything, jumped off her stool, and ran into my arms. My 8-year-old was in the other room, completely absorbed in some grand action figure battle. My 11-year-old son was outside practicing with his bow and arrow, my daughter was upstairs reading, and my 2-year-old twins were zooming around the house on their plastic cars, absolutely destroying the floors—but I don’t care. The house was alive.
I’ve lived both ways—coming home to an empty house and coming home to a full one. And I can tell you, without a doubt, the second option is so much better. It’s not even close. There’s a kind of joy, purpose, and meaning that only family can bring. And that’s true whether you’re rich or not. Kids don’t take away from your life, they make your life. If you have kids, have more. If you don’t, get to work. You won’t regret it.

What a wonderfully refreshing testimony to fatherhood and family. It’s the polar opposite of those who advocate for childlessness. Many of these ignorant and confused radicals often making the downright ridiculous claim that large families will somehow harm and strain the environment.

The campaign for fewer children or no children at all is predicated on the vicious lie that boys and girls are burdens. In fact, they are blessings.

“Children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward,” wrote the Psalmist. “Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate” (Psalm 127:3-5).

In a world that embraces so many falsehoods like the anti-natalist movement champions, we’re in desperate need of men and women to marry and then have as many children as the Lord gifts to them.

Reading Matt’s post over the weekend, I was reminded of the beautiful words from another conservative radio icon, Ronald Reagan:

“There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.”

Even better when those footsteps are those of a spouse and your many children.

Image credit: Matt Walsh