Katy Faust, Founder and President of Them Before Us, advocates for children's rights and emphasizes the need for stable biological family units. She critiques the cultural shift towards sexual autonomy, arguing that it undermines children's well-being. Through personal stories, she highlights the adverse effects of surrogacy and divorce on children. Faust also explores the balance between adult autonomy and nurturing healthy family structures, urging a reevaluation of modern ideals and policies that prioritize children's interests.
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Personal Family Story Shapes View
Katy Faust grew up with divorced parents and maintains a close relationship with both her mother and father.
Her experience shapes her belief that children need both a mother and a father for identity and flourishing.
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Intentional Loss Hurts More Than Tragedy
Children who lose a parent to death often fare better than those who lose a parent through divorce or intentional separation.
Faust argues intentional parent loss isolates children's grief and removes communal validation of their loss.
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Prioritise Biological Parents In Policy
Avoid normalising commercial surrogacy and intentional mother- or fatherless family creation as progress.
Prioritise children's need for biological parents when shaping reproductive policy and practice.
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Katy Faust discusses the importance of stable, biological family units, asserting that children have a fundamental right to their mother and father. She critiques the cultural shift toward sexual autonomy, which she sees as undermining children’s well-being.
Through personal stories and data, Faust explores how intentional family disruptions, like surrogacy or divorce, harm children more than tragic losses. She advocates for policies that prioritise children’s interests, urging a reevaluation of modern family ideals.
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. 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 latest book. Katy and her husband are raising their four children in Seattle.
You can purchase Katie's Latest book, "Pro-Child Politics" here: Australia: https://www.booktopia.com.au/pro-child-politics-katy-faust/book/9798888457085.html?srsltid=AfmBOoql6cQ1SUqvapB4Ny4YqSH1AwOZWfJE3vSyaw-srdXT-AC6hCMf
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