Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement

You probably know the adult viewpoints on marriage, infertility, reproductive technologies, same-sex parenting, divorce, and adoption. But have you ever considered the kids’ perspective?

Them Before Us has flipped the script on adult-centric attitudes toward marriage, parenthood, and reproductive technologies by framing these issues around a child’s right to be raised by both their mother and father. Set against a backdrop of sound research, the compelling stories throughout each chapter confirm that a child’s mental, physical, and emotional well-being depends on being loved by the two people responsible for their existence. It’s a paradigm shift that will impact the personal and the political, and reframe every marriage and family conversation across the globe.

Them Before Us dispels many prevalent, harmful myths concerning children’s rights, such as:

    • Kids need only love and safety—moms and dads are optional.
    • Love makes a family—biology is irrelevant.
    • Marriage is about adults—it has nothing to do with kids.
    • Children are resilient and will “get over” divorce.
    • Studies show “no difference” in outcomes for kids with same-sex parents.
    • Sperm and egg donor kids are fortunate because they are so wanted.
    • Surrogacy is a great way to help wannabe parents have a baby.
    • Reproductive technologies are just like adoption.

Are you tired of a culture that views adults as victims in family matters, when it’s clear that kids are the ones who truly pay the price? If so, we are your people, and this is your movement.

Katy Faust is Founder and President of Them Before Us, a global children’s rights nonprofit and the co-author of the book of the same title. She publishes and speaks widely on why marriage and family are matters of justice for children. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, USA Today, The Federalist, Public Discourse, WORLD Magazine, Washington Examiner, The American Mind, and The American Conservative. She is on the advisory board for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. Katy helped design the teen edition of CanaVox which studies sex, marriage, and relationships from a natural law perspective. She and her co-author detailed their philosophy of worldview transmission in Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City. Pro-Child Politics is her third book. Katy and her husband are raising their four children in Seattle.

Stacy Manning, senior editor for Them Before Us, is a standard issue, stay-at-home suburban mom, author, and side-hustle professional. It's also widely accepted that Mrs. Manning is responsible for inventing the raised middle finger, aka the Bird of Freedom. She and her husband of twenty something years are raising their three children behind enemy lines in a suburb just outside of Seattle. When she’s not sticking her meddling fingers in another writer’s work, she is barefoot in the kitchen making her husband a sammich.