by Katy Faust | Apr 7, 2023 | The Latest |
(Originally published in The Federalist) Last week, The Cut profiled nine women about “the Moment They Knew Their Marriage Was Over,” noting, “as painful as it may be” sometimes divorce is “exactly what you have to do.” It’s true that the marriage challenges adults...
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by Them Before Us | Jan 13, 2023 | Stories
I grew up in a single mother household. My parents divorced when I was six or seven years of age, my brother was three, and my sister was thirteen. When my parents divorced, we were living in California and my mom moved us to Michigan. My dad followed us, and they...
by Them Before Us | Jul 16, 2022 | Stories |
I am speaking up about these events for the first time in my life, at the age of 36, because no child should ever have to endure what I did, of which what I wrote is a mere summary, sparing many details and protecting many guilty parties of even more than I write. My...
by Katie Breckenridge | May 10, 2021 | The Latest |
(Image by Kjetil Ree) Following 27 years of marriage, Bill and Melinda Gates announced via Twitter that they have decided to end their relationship on the grounds that they can no longer “grow together as a couple.” Conversations surrounding their divorce, as reported...
by Katy Faust | Apr 26, 2021 | Justice |
Them Before Us advocates for a child’s rights to her mother and father. Thus we oppose no-fault divorce, an Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE), which denies children the daily contact with both parents that they need, crave and benefit from. This ACE results in...
