Them Before Us Podcast: Recent Episodes
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This is a live recording of Katy sharing about Them Before Us and answering questions at the Pro Family Legislative Conference in November 2019.
1:14 - How culture shifted as Obama evolved on marriage and everyone on the side of traditional marriage being viewed as a bigot.
3:00 - Katy talks about starting her blog Ask The Bigot and what she learned from it.
4:00 - Looking at things that hurt kids and what we would choose to eliminate if we could. An 'all of the above option' would be eliminating fatherlessness.
5:24 - Stats that show impact of not having father in the home on kids and why marriage is important to society.
7:20 - Why the conservative marriage debate failed in our culture... Point One: We didn't correctly identify the victims of redefining marriage (kids).
8:17 - Point Two: We didn't humanize the victims. Using statistics isn't enough to win hearts and minds, highlighting the stories of the kids impacted does.
9:07 - Point Three: We didn't care about all the victims. We haven't expressed the issues with no-fault divorce, heterosexual couples using donor conception.
10:05 - The proper foundation for this argument is defending the rights and needs of children.
10:07 - Being outed from blogging anonymously opened up more opportunities to share this message around the world, and people started reaching out to Katy to share their stories.
12:12 - How Them Before Us is highlighting stories and uniting adults from all different perspectives around supporting children's rights.
14:53 - Why is the child's right to his/her parents (as spelled out in U.N. Treaty on Rights of the Child) so important? 1. Identity Constituting: We look to our parents and kinship bonds to answer "who am I?"
15:58 - 2. Naturally provides the safest framework for children. Married biological parents are the safest for kids statistically.
16:45 - 3. Child Development. Mother and father being married and in child's life perfectly balanced the need for masculine and feminine in child-rearing.
17:17 - Three ways children's rights are threatened. 1. Surrogacy 2. Adoption, 3. Intent Based Parenting Laws
25:47 - Birth certificates and adoptees, child-centered adoption policies
28:09 - Questions Begin
Listen as Katy Faust joins Todd Herman to discuss Them Before Us and our opposition to Washington State's "Uniform Parentage Act" and why it is bad for society and terrible for children. Read more at "Six Reasons Why Washington State's "Uniform Parentage Act" Should Die A Terrible Death"
You can also read Katy's Senate testimony and why donor conceived people opposed this bill.
Katy Faust joins Janet Mefferd to talk about how Washington State's Uniform Parentage Act violates the rights of children. Read Katy's Senate testimony and why this legislation commodifies children.
Katy Faust joins Daniel Davis on The Daily Signal podcast to talk about founding Them Before Us and why the world needs a global children's rights movement. They discuss no-fault divorce, why marriage matters to children and society, surrogacy, and how reproductive technologies commodify children.
Them Before Us founder Katy Faust joins Jenn to answer one of our most frequently asked questions- "If you're against donor-conception, doesn't that mean you're against adoption?" They discuss the proper understanding of adoption and why adoption supports children's rights, but third party reproduction violates children's rights.
Jenn sits down with Anjelica, a young woman who shared the story of her upbringing and some of the difficulties she faced because of her parents' divorce and how it impacted the relationships that followed.
Read more:
What’s so bad about divorce?
What “Shared Parenting” After Divorce Really Looks Like
The Father Effect- Daughters of Divorce Serve as a Test Case
Jenn and TBU founder Katy Faust talk about one of the pillars of Them Before Us; gender isn't a social construct, it is foundational to society, parenting, and family.
Read more:
Study: Involved Father's Make Babies Smarter (and that's unacceptable)
Gender Matters
Gender Matters In Writing... And Parenting.
Jenn chats with TBU founder Katy Faust about the intersection of events both culturally and personally which lead her to launch Them Before Us. Minute 15:15 Why is TBU against third-party-reproduction but for Adoption?
Read more:
Position Satement On Adoption