#408 Them Before Us: Defending the Right of Children to a Mom and Dad with Katy Faust

In this interview, Katy Faust, founder of Them Before Us, joins me to address one of the most pressing and misunderstood moral issues of our time: the rights of children—beginning with their right to be raised by their own mother and father whenever possible.

Katy Faust is 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 husband are raising their four children in Seattle.

In this interview, Katy Faust draws from research, natural law, and a Biblical worldview to make the case that marriage and family are not social constructs designed to serve adult preferences; rather, they are child-centered institutions designed to promote human flourishing. We also explore how modern cultural narratives—often framed in the language of compassion and equality—have quietly displaced children from the center of cultural and policy considerations. The church has always been a pro-child champion; and it is time for the church to speak with courage and clarity on matters such as marriage, divorce, reproductive technologies, and surrogacy.

Key Takeaways:

• Why children’s rights must come before adult desires.
• The unique and irreplaceable roles of mothers and fathers.
• A review of the church’s history as a pro-child champion.
• How the church can respond Biblically and compassionately.
• What faithfulness looks like when cultural pressure is high.
• Follow Katy Faust on X.
• Link to the Them Before Us Substack.

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