(Originally published in The Washington Examiner) Eight years ago this week, five Supreme Court justices redefined marriage for the entire country in the name of “equality.” Remember those ubiquitous blue and yellow “=” bumper stickers? Those hesitant to abandon the...
Katy Faust
California Bill Would Make Insurance Fund Unlimited Attempts To Create Motherless And Fatherless Children
(Originally published in The Federalist) Marriage, once the most child-friendly institution in the world, has now been redefined in the name of equality. It was argued same-sex couples just wanted to visit one another in the hospital, have access to the same...
Korea Round Up
I visited Korea April 11- 16 and spent the week discussing why children must be central to all marriage and family considerations. Now the country with the lowest fertility rate in the world, and under growing international pressure to redefine the traditional Korean...
Putting Children at the Center of Family Policy
(Originally published in Public Discourse) The landscape around marriage and the family has drastically changed over the past sixty years. Culturally, adult sexual desire, choice, and identity have been elevated as the highest goods. Legally, no-fault divorce...
9 Children On The Devastating Moment They Learned Their Parents’ Marriage Was Over
(Originally published in The Federalist) Last week, The Cut profiled nine women about “the Moment They Knew Their Marriage Was Over,” noting, “as painful as it may be” sometimes divorce is “exactly what you have to do.” It’s true that the marriage challenges adults...
Letter to Ukrainian Minister Inna Sovsun
Dear MP Sovsun, My name is Katy Faust and I am the President of Them Before Us. We represent the children who will be harmed if you approve the draft law on civil partnerships for same-sex couples. In the past year, thousands of Ukrainian children have lost their...
Letter to Czech Minister Vít Rakušan
Dear Mr. Minister Vít Rakušan, My name is Katy Faust and I am the President of Them Before Us. We represent the children who will be harmed if you allow same-sex couples to be listed on a child’s birth certificate. Millie Fontana was raised by two mothers. When she...
How the GOP Can Become the Pro-Child Party
(Originally published in Newsweek) Glenn Youngkin's 2021 upset win in the Virginia governor's race introduced a new voting bloc: parents. Since then, threats to parental rights have only increased, with blue states like California declaring themselves "sanctuary...
Christians need to say no to surrogacy
(Originally published in World News Group) Recently, a picture of two men heading home from Canada to Europe with their surrogate-delivered child garnered a great deal of attention on Twitter. Some objected to the fact that the baby would have no mother, others by the...
Democrats’ ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ Would Hurt Children
(Originally published in The Daily Signal) Control of the U.S. Senate has been decided and now we hear that Senate Democrats have scheduled a vote Wednesday on the misnamed Respect for Marriage Act, in hopes of legislatively cementing the mother- and father-loss that...









