by Patience Sunne | Feb 5, 2025 | The Latest
(Originally published in The Federalist) The United States has the world’s highest rate of kids being raised in single-parent homes. This is alarming, considering the benefits children gain when being raised by their married parents, including greater academic...
by Them Before Us | Oct 28, 2024 | Stories, Uncategorized
My mom was 17 and my dad was 23 when they got married. They had 4 children together. We bounced around from home to home until I was about 9 years old. That’s when my dad got a stable job and was then able to afford our own place. Most of the time it is difficult for...
by Them Before Us | Jul 8, 2024 | Stories
I am the only child of my biological parents, who divorced just after I turned four. I don’t know all the circumstances, but I’m pretty sure my father was messing around with other women. The divorce devastated my mother. I have no memories of my biological father or...
by Them Before Us | Apr 8, 2024 | Stories |
I was raised in a divorce shared-custody structured household. If you ask my parents separately who raised me, they would each say they were responsible. My parents decided that No Fault Divorce was the best thing for our “family” when I was less than one year old. I...
by Them Before Us | Mar 7, 2024 | #ANDnotOR, #ANDnotORlearn, Justice, The Latest |
Dear Committee members, Them Before Us defends children’s rights in the family. We are writing in support of SB 1958 because of the significant and lasting harm that no-fault divorce inflicts on Oklahoma’s children. “Divorce” is another term for the death of a...
