Oklahoma Bill Encourages Marriage With State Tax Credits For Hitched Parents

by Patience Sunne | Feb 5, 2025 | EXPORT, 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...

Elisa’s story | “The divorce still affects me today in every area of my life.”

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...

Randall Christopher’s story | “…my insecurity in image and identity only increased the more I visited his world on the weekends.”

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...

Christina’s Story | “I cannot understand why chasing selfish happiness at the expense of providing a child a stable home and family would seem logical.”

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...

In Support of Oklahoma’s Senate Bill 1958 Opposing No-Fault Divorce

by Them Before Us | Mar 7, 2024 | #ANDnotOR, #ANDnotORlearn, EXPORT, 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...