by Jennifer | Feb 15, 2022 | Around the World, Japan
Last month, a researcher from Kanazawa University in Japan reached out to interview Katy Faust for a study about donor conception, family building, and various regulations around the globe. We’re so thankful the message of children’s rights that Them...
by Them Before Us | Jul 29, 2020 | Stories |
In 2016 I purchased an Ancestry DNA test. It sat on my counter for a week before I spit into the tube and mailed it out — sending my genetic material off into the universe, hoping to find some information about myself and where I came from. The idea was terrifying in...
by Them Before Us | May 15, 2020 | Stories |
When I was just a toddler, my mom married my stepfather. She had just dissolved her marriage with my biological father mere months earlier. My stepfather brought 3 of his own children to the marriage. He had been divorced from their mother. My baby brother was a...
by Them Before Us | May 1, 2020 | Stories |
My purpose in writing this is to explain some of the pain I have experienced by not having my mother and father raise me. I hope my story can be a cautionary tale for anyone considering sex outside of traditional marriage. In no way do I advocate for abortion. I am...
by Them Before Us | Jan 21, 2020 | Stories |
My parents were young when they married. They were both 17. My mother was still in high school and pregnant. She graduated but my dad didn’t. He worked in the oilfield in Oklahoma and made great money when times were good. I was their only child. I’m 41...
