How Legalizing Surrogacy Helps Activists ‘Queer Babies’

(Originally published in The Federalist) In December, gay father Balázs Boross published “Queering babies: (Auto)ethnographic reflections from a gay parent through surrogacy” in the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society. The essay “explores how encounters with...

Protect children, not porn

(Originally published in WORLD magazine) I’ve told all four of my children once they were old enough to understand, “You may not be looking for porn, but porn is looking for you.” They need to have a basic explanation of what porn is and why it’s harmful. Like most...

TBU Supports Texas’ Age-Verification Law in Battle at U.S. Supreme Court

Tomorrow the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether pornography websites should be required to verify users’ ages in order to protect children from this harmful content. Under the Texas law, if “adult entertainment” makes up more than 30% of a...
What YOU said about the importance of Dads

What YOU said about the importance of Dads

Ahead of Father's Day, we asked our social media followers and advocates: From lighthearted to serious, children's rights activists honed in on the distinctive that only dads can offer their children. While he certainly gave me the 'girl talk' on the day I needed that...

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Them Before Us – Your Children’s Rights Podcast

Them Before Us – Your Children’s Rights Podcast

We're excited to announce that the inaugural episode of the Them Before Us Podcast has finally dropped. We intend for this to be yet another resource for all of you children's rights advocates out there. Our aim is to look at legal and cultural news and how to view...

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Win for Children’s Rights: Them Before Us Combated Bill in Minnesota Subsidizing Donor Conception

Win for Children’s Rights: Them Before Us Combated Bill in Minnesota Subsidizing Donor Conception

Them Before Us joined with allies in Minnesota to combat a bill that would have required insurance companies to subsidize the fertility industry and intentionally deny children a relationship with one or both of their biological parents. At the end of Minnesota’s legislative session the language was removed from the final version of the Health and Human Services Omnibus bill in conference committee.

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Putting Children at the Center of Family Policy

Putting Children at the Center of Family Policy

(Originally published in Public Discourse) The landscape around marriage and the family has drastically changed over the past sixty years. Culturally, adult sexual desire, choice, and identity have been elevated as the highest goods. Legally, no-fault divorce...

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How the GOP Can Become the Pro-Child Party

How the GOP Can Become the Pro-Child Party

(Originally published in Newsweek) Glenn Youngkin's 2021 upset win in the Virginia governor's race introduced a new voting bloc: parents. Since then, threats to parental rights have only increased, with blue states like California declaring themselves "sanctuary...

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