Chappell Roan and those parenting comments

Gen Z popstar’s claim that parents are unhappy has been widely criticised

Chappell Roan
The 27-year-old said she wasn't aware of 'a single person who is happy and has children, at this age'
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US popstar Chappell Roan has caused a stir with her statement that nobody she knows with children is happy.

The 27-year-old said she wasn't aware of "a single person who is happy and has children, at this age", adding that "all of my friends who have kids are in hell" and she had "not met anyone" who "has light in their eyes who has a child under five, at this age".

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.