Elon Musk has confirmed the existence of yet one more child just days after bringing his son to a gathering on the White House, bringing the full well into double-digits.
The South African billionaire is a staunch pronatalist, a political ideology which suggests reproduction is the first function of humanity, and has grow to be increasingly radicalised on the topic – recent posts on X have seen him rant about ‘population collapse’ and lower birth rates resulting in the crumbling of civilization with increasing regularity.
It’s a trait he appears to have inherited from his father Errol Musk, also a pronatalist, who suggests that humans must be bred ‘like horses’ and has expressed views which have seen him accused of promoting eugenics – claims he strenuously denies.
This week, conservative influencer Ashley St Clair announced she had given birth to yet one more child of Musk’s in an X post on Friday night – believed to be his thirteenth.
‘Five months ago, I welcomed a brand new baby into the world. Elon Musk is the daddy,’ she wrote.
The firebrand conservative has previously authored an anti-woke children’s book about identity, and has faced criticism for hanging out with alleged white supremacists.
Prior to his tryst with St Clair, Musk had previously fathered 12 children with three different women; his ex-wife Justine Musk, the musician Claire Boucher aka Grimes, and Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis.
His first child, Nevada Alexander Musk, was born in 2002 but tragically died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome 10 weeks later. The couple later had twins, Griffin and Vivian, in 2004, after which a set of triplets, Kai, Saxon, and Damian, in 2006.
Vivian, who’s transgender, has disowned Musk because of his transphobic rhetoric and refusal to simply accept her trans identity, and has accused him of being an absentee father and said she ‘now not wishes to be related to him in any shape or form.’ She now goes by her mother’s maiden name of Wilson and claims her father is ‘dead’ to her.
Musk also has three children with Grimes, including four-year-old X Æ A-12, who was spotted on the White House last week – without his mother’s consent.
‘He shouldn’t be in public like this,’ Grimes wrote following the looks. ‘I didn’t see this, thank u for alerting me. But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh.’
The previous couple have two other children together, who even have unusual names; Exa Dark Sideræl, three, and Techno Mechanicus, two.
Grimes is currently engaged in a legal battle with Musk for custody of her children.
Shivon Zilis, a Canadian enterprise capitalist, has two children with Musk, Strider and Azure. The couple also welcomed a 3rd child in 2024, though the name and gender haven’t been publicly disclosed.
Unlike Musk’s other paramore’s Zilis appears to have a greater relationship with Musk, and the pair have been spotted along with their children in public.
Elon Musk has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to fertility research, and is believed to have conceived multiple children through IVF.
It’s a policy which seems to have influenced Donald Trump, declared himself ‘the daddy of fertilisation’ and vowed to make IVF free for anyone who needs it on the campaign trail last yr.
But there are concerns that Musk’s private and non-private support for pronatalism masks a more sinister agenda.
Philip Cohen, professor of sociology at Maryland University, told Sky News: ‘There’s some catastrophic considering that goes on within the tech bro space of Silicon Valley and so forth, and it’s often not very practically oriented.’
‘For those who really tried to advertise pronatalism, inevitably what you find yourself doing is promoting a retrograde form of anti-feminism.’
He added: ‘So it finally ends up being how can we persuade women to have more children, which finally ends up being how can we’ve got women out of the workforce, at home more, married younger, all of the things which can be form of rolling back the progress that we made with regard to women’s equality within the last 100 years. And in order that’s my primary concern.
‘The opposite is that it goes together with form of a virulent nationalism that sometimes just isn’t very removed from racism and white supremacy.
‘The thought of not only more births, but a certain type of births, a certain type of family. And it has not led to good outcomes in modern society when right-wing governments try to advertise higher birth rates.’
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