It's been a busy year for our global children's rights movement. Here's a few highlights! Book Published: By far, our biggest accomplishment in 2021 was publishing Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children’s Rights Movement, by Katy Faust and Stacy Manning, and...
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Texas Custody Case Pits Father Against (Deceased) Mother’s Boyfriend
Imagine: You and a woman have a daughter together. The relationship doesn’t work out, you break up/divorce and custody of your daughter is split between the two of you 50/50. Seems reasonable so far, right? Honestly this probably describes the state of childhood for...
Fight the Digital Divide: Promote Marriage
Earlier this year, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) sponsored the Digital Equality Act of 2019 in an effort to close the "digital divide" by extending wifi access to more communities. Tech companies such as Facebook and Verizon, Apple (in this article, donating 9,000...
Andy Cohen Is Having A Baby. Everyone But The Baby Rejoices.
On Friday, TV host Andy Cohen announced that he was going to be a dad. “Tonight, I want you to be the first to know that after many years of careful deliberation, a fair amount of prayers and the benefit of science — if all goes according to plan in about six weeks...
Divorce is Bad for Your Kid’s Health
Mountains of evidence confirm that children do best when they live with their married biological parents; no alternative family structure affords children the level of protection and stability as their natural family. Children under the pressure of a broken family...
Why ‘Swipe Right to Build-a-Baby’ Is So Wrong
Recently, the hosts of The View discussed a new phone app called Just a Baby which "helps you find a surrogate, partner, co-parent, sperm, or egg donor – or find someone that needs your help to have a baby.” Their reactions ranged from “this makes me crazy”...
What’s so bad about divorce?
Reams of research testify to marriage being a force for good in the lives of children and statistically, the home of a child's married mother and father is the safest place for a child. However, Them Before Us does not advocate for "marriage at all costs" if the...
Bill Nye, Ice Cream, and “flavors of sexuality”
Bill Nye the *honorary* Science Guy has ventured into new, unscientific territory and he has taken innocent old ice cream with him. Here's his video attempt to simplify the complexities sexual orientation and its expression. If you happen to find the video unwatchable...







