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...
by Them Before Us | Jan 26, 2024 | Stories |
It resonated with me so deeply when you shared on Louise Perry’s podcast that a child feels loved when they see their biological parents sharing affection and love with one another. I felt the opposite when I witnessed my biological parent sharing intimacy with a...
by Them Before Us | Nov 2, 2023 | Stories |
I had a different childhood as my father was 41 and my mom 18. After they were married for 10 years my mother started seeing a woman behind my dad’s back. One weekend, me, this woman, an old family friend a few years older than me who was visiting from the UK,...
by Them Before Us | Oct 17, 2023 | Stories
I was a donor-conceived (IVF) child and a twin born in 1995. My mother desperately wanted to have children but with no prospect of a traditional family. She lived in central California in the 90’s and was near a larger IVF facility. She proceeded to try multiple...
