Them Before Us filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court making one thing abundantly clear: Birth Certificates Exist for Kids, Not Adults. Box vs Henderson is an Indiana case arguing the same-sex spouse of a biological parent should be listed on a child's first and...
February 25, 2020 RE: OPPOSITION TO HB 20-1158 Dear Honorable Members of the Colorado Senate: Thank you for your public service to the citizens of Colorado. Your role as a leader in making decisions that benefit the best interest of all Coloradans is critical. We are...
IN SUPPORT OF HB 1096 Dear Members of the House Judiciary Committee; My name is Katy Faust. I am the founder and director of the children’s rights organization Them Before Us. We represent the party who is most impacted by HB 1096: the children. Here are four ways...
In June 2019, Them Before Us filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court on behalf of twin nine year olds defending their right to be raised by their father, who is gay. An overview of the case can be found at The Federalist and The Daily Signal. You can read the...
Dear Members, My name is Katy Faust. I am founder and director of the children’s rights organization Them Before Us, committed to defending children's rights in family structure. We represent the party most impacted by HF 1140 – the children. While surrogacy harms...
Re: S.2071 Child - Parent Security Act Dear Member of Assembly, My name is Katy Faust. I am founder and director of the children’s rights organization Them Before Us. We represent the party most impacted by S.2071 - the children. The ill-named "Child-Parent Security...
February 8, 2019 Re: HB1979 on Assisted Conception; Amends Statute to Provide Gender-Neutral Terminology, etc. Honorable Senators, My name is Katy Faust and I am the founder of the children’s rights organization, Them Before Us. We represent the party that you haven’t...
When people think about surrogacy, it's always from the adult's perspective- the infertile couple with no way to have children, or the gay couple who needs a "surrogate angel" to complete their family. But there are very real risks to children when we commercialize...
Dear New York Senator/Assemblyman, Them Before Us exists to defend a child’s fundamental right to their mother and father. This right grants children not only the two people who are statistically the most likely to be connected to, protective of, and invested in them...
Members of the law and justice committee,* Thank you for the opportunity to be here. My name is Katy Faust and I’m the founder of the children’s rights organization Them Before Us. I am the former Assistant Director of Chinese Children Adoption International, the...
Them Before Us is made up of ordinary adults who are committed to putting the needs of children at the forefront of the battle surrounding the very foundation of our society - marriage and family. Are you an ordinary person too? Does your simple blood boil when children are expected to conform to the lifestyle of adults because you understand, maybe firsthand, how hard that is on kids? And are you tired of culture framing adults as victims when we all know that kids are the ones who have to pay the price? If so, we are your people.
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