The leader of the “pronatalist” movement supported by Elon Musk that encourages families to have lots of children to stave off population decline is under fire for slapping his toddler in the face in the middle of a news interview.
“Multiple people called [child-welfare services] over this. There’s now an active movement to take our kids away,” Malcolm Collins, 37, a dad of three who co-founded the foundation with his pregnant wife, Simone, 36, told The Post on Sunday.
Guardian journalist Jenny Kleeman, who interviewed the couple in and around their home in Valley Forge, Penn., for the weekend feature, has described being left “speechless” by what she witnessed and devoted the final quarter of her lengthy article to recounting the incident.
Malcolm Collins, 37, who heads up a “pronatalist” movement encouraging large families, came under fire after smacking his 2-year-old Torsten in the face during a newspaper interview.Instagram/Simone Collins
Malcolm explained that the family uses corporal punishment — which is legal in Pennsylvania where the couple lives — only as an in-the-moment corrective action during potentially dangerous situations.
Such situations apparently included when his 2-year-old son Torsten “knocked the [restaurant] table with his foot” and nearly caused it to topple over during the interview.
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