Divorce is Bad for Your Kid’s Health

by Jennifer | Aug 7, 2017 | Studies, The Latest

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...

John McEnroe Shreds Serena and Reality- why gender matters in tennis and marriage.

by Katy Faust | Jul 2, 2017 | EXPORT, The Latest

John McEnroe.  I have hardly heard his name since I was a kid listening to my dad yell at the TV screen for him to “stop throwing his racket around like a baby!” But in the last few weeks, the bad boy of tennis has captured headlines and my...

“Equality” for Same-Sex Couples on Birth Certificates = Inequality for Kids

by Katy Faust | Jun 26, 2017 | EXPORT, The Latest

On the second anniversary of the national redefinition of marriage, today the US Supreme Court struck down an Arkansas law that kept same-sex couples from listing their spouse as a parent on their child’s birth certificate.  Why?  Because, as many of us argued...

Father’s Day for a Lesbian’s Daughter

by Brandi Walton | Jun 19, 2017 | The Latest

Another Father’s Day. Another phone call I didn’t make. I was raised by my lesbian mother who divorced my father when I was one year old. My mother told my father to go away and never come back.  And that’s exactly what he did. It should come as no...

What “Shared Parenting” After Divorce Really Looks Like

by Katy Faust | Jun 2, 2017 | The Latest

Them Before Us is committed to reorienting conversations about family structure away from adult desires and toward children’s needs.  And when it comes to an unhappy marriage, most of the commentary focuses on the wants of the adults involved with little, if...

Stories of Donor-Conceived Kids with Gay Parents- Why “family break-up” doesn’t explain their struggles.

by Them Before Us | May 23, 2017 | Stories, The Latest

Study the Studies- What We Know About Same-Sex Parenting is a worldview wrecking ball for the “all children need is love” crowd. We received some objections within a few hours of publishing Study the Studies from those who felt that the poor outcomes...