New European study claims that children with two dads are doing better than those with heterosexual parents
In a European study of child outcomes, researchers evaluated the children born to gay couples through surrogacy and compared them to those born to heterosexual couples. The study participants included 67 gay couples who became parents via gestational surrogacy and 67...
Them Before Us 2023 interviews and articles overview
2023 has been quite a year for spreading the children’s rights message! We’ve had video and podcast interviews across 38 platforms, including chats with Lila Rose, Allie Beth Stuckey, and Kristan Hawkins. Consider donating to help us reach even more people with our...
Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Overview – Updates from London
At the start of the year, I was invited to join the Advisory Board for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. Spearheaded by Jordan Peterson of Canada, John Anderson of Australia, and Philippa Stroud of the UK, the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship is “an...
Opposition to Michigan Surrogacy HBs 5207–5215
Dear Chair Breen and members, Them Before Us is a nonprofit committed to defending children’s rights to their mothers and fathers. We are writing in opposition to HBs 5207–5215 because of the significant and lasting harm that they pose to Michigan’s most vulnerable...
An Open Letter to Giorgia Meloni
(Originally published in The European Conservative) Dear PM Meloni, You’re right about surrogacy. You’re right about birth certificates. And you’re right about defending the traditional family. How do I know you’re right? Because I’ve been collecting the stories of...
Children and the Christian revolution
(Originally published in World News Group) The early church was born into a world of child victimization. Abortion, infanticide, child castration, selling children, and child sex abuse were common. The practice of infant exposure, casting disabled, illegitimate, or...
Katy Faust for Big Marriage
(Originally published in The American Conservative) When Katy Faust spoke at the third National Conservative conference in Florida in 2022, her speech had a simple refrain: “This is a child.” Applying the Vince Lombardi Green Bay Packers story (“Gentlemen, this is a...
Eradicating male and female
(Originally published in World News Group) The progressive legal push to redefine the family continues unabated. Last month, the Biden administration's Department of Health and Human Services proposed to redefine de-sex parenthood in law—avoiding gender-specific...
MRT, or “Three-Parent Embryos”
In May 2023, with the approval of the United Kingdom’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the first UK baby was born using a “three-parent embryo” technique, better known as mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT). The process, which has been hailed as a...
Divorce Is Hardest On The Kids, Even When They’re All Grown Up
(Originally published in The Federalist) Children are made for a daily relationship with their mothers and fathers, which is best achieved within the life-long union of marriage. As the phenomenon known as “gray divorce,” or divorce over the age of 50, increases (34.9...
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