(LifeSiteNews) – Charlie Kirk, the founder of conservative student organization Turning Point USA, announced his wife gave birth to their first child last week.
“Last week was a week that changed my life,” Charlie Kirk said on his show Monday. He and his wife Erika “welcomed our beautiful daughter into the world.”
“Welcome to the world baby girl. We love you so much.❤️ Erika did so so well, praise God!” Kirk also wrote on Instagram.
Kirk said meeting his daughter strengthened his resolve to fight against the “bad guys.”
“When you look down in your arms and you see your child all of a sudden, everything that you’re fighting for, everything that you care about, everything that you are pushing forward gets into absolute clarity almost instantaneously,” Kirk said Monday. “It puts the entire fight…into an entirely new perspective.”
“And it was without a doubt the most transformational moment of my life,” he said. “And, boy, does it make you want to defeat the bad guys more than ever and to continue to fight for what is beautiful and what is good and what is true.”
Kirk said he and his wife made a conscious decision to keep the news of her pregnancy private.
“In a world where everything is put on social media, where everything is constantly being posted and being talked about, we made a decision – my wife and I – to keep one thing rather private…outside of some close family and friends, my wife Erika and I – we decided not to tell the world she was pregnant. We did that for a variety of reasons, some being security and also just being that it’s not about social media. It’s not about the millions of people that might talk about it and to get likes and get shares and all of that.
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He encouraged others to “go right into it” to have kids.
“It’s something that will make your life enhanced in such a beautiful and profound way,” Kirk said.