Them Before Us is a book that argues for the necessity of a global children's rights movement. Written by Katy Faust and Stacy Manning, it critically examines recent social, legal, and cultural decisions through the lens of their impact on children. The authors advocate for policies and practices that prioritize the well-being and rights of children, highlighting the need for a paradigm shift in how society approaches family and child welfare issues.
Them Before Us is a book that argues for the necessity of a global children's rights movement. Written by Katy Faust and Stacy Manning, it critically examines recent social, legal, and cultural decisions through the lens of their impact on children. The authors advocate for policies and practices that prioritize the well-being and rights of children, highlighting the need for a paradigm shift in how society approaches family and child welfare issues.
Jordan Peterson sits down with author, speaker, and founder and president of the children’s rights organization Them Before Us, Katy Faust. They discuss the ethics of surrogate pregnancies, the importance of both the mother and father in the home, the purpose of marriage being for the child — not the adults, and the abysmal outcomes of no-fault divorce in our culture.
Katy Faust is the founder and president of Them Before Us, a global movement defending children’s right to their mother and father. She publishes, speaks, and testifies 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, The Daily Signal, the 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. Katy and co-author Stacy Manning detailed their philosophy of worldview transmission in their second book, “Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City.” She and her pastor husband are raising their four children in Seattle.
This episode was filmed on February 13th, 2025.
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For Katy Faust:
On X https://x.com/advo_katy?lang=en
On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/katyfaustofficial/?hl=en
Them Before Us website https://thembeforeus.com/
Them Before Us on X https://x.com/ThemBeforeUs?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Read Katy’s books on parenting:
Them Before Us: Why We Need a Global Children's Rights Movement (2021) https://a.co/d/4l8WVET
Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City: Teaching Historical, Economic, and Biological Truth in a World of Lies (2023) https://a.co/d/8sN4Blb
Pro-Child Politics: Why Every Cultural, Economic, and National Issue Is a Matter of Justice for Children (2024) https://a.co/d/7p0k6nL
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