“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. She insists that children shouldn’t sacrifice their happiness for ours. A rallying cry that flies in the face of the current cultural attitudes about sex.
Katy Faust is Founder and Director of Them Before Us. She received her undergraduate degree in Political Science and Asian Studies at St. Olaf College and then received a Fulbright scholarship to Taiwan. Her fluency in Mandarin assisted her when she worked with the largest Chinese adoption agency in the world.
Katy publishes widely on the rights of children and is a regular contributor at The Federalist. Katy is the Washington State leader for the grassroots marriage movement CanaVox, and currently appears in their video series, “Dear Katy.” She is married to a pastor and mother of four children, the youngest
of whom is adopted from China.
In 2012 Katy began writing about why marriage is a matter of social justice for kids. Her articles/interviews have appeared in USA Today, Public Discourse,
LifeSite News, The Federalist, The Daily Signal, and on The Eric Metaxas Show, Breakpoint, and ABC
Australia. She has filed three amicus briefs supporting children’s rights and advocated on behalf of children with lawmakers in the US and abroad as well as at the United Nations.
She insists that it is cruel to children to make them deal with our bad choices as adults, ergo the title of this episode: Children Shouldn’t Sacrifice their Happiness for Ours.
Readings & Resources
- Them Before Us, thembeforeus.com
- “Why It’s Probably Not A Coincidence That The Mother Transing Her 7-Year-Old Isn’t Biologically Related,” by Katy Faust at
The Federalist - “What’s ‘Incredibly Damaging To The Gospel,’ Joshua Harris, Are Your Lies About It,” by Katy Faust at The Federalist
- “Doesn’t Love Make a Family?” by What Would You Say on YouTube
Resources from the Ruth Institute
- Katy’s first interview with Dr J, “Are Adults Selfishly Using Children?”
- Dr Morse’s video about John the Baptist on Facebook
- Dr. J Show about the #SaveJames case: “#SaveJames”
- The Sexual State, by Dr. Morse, the entire section called “The Divorce Ideology” deals with these topics thesexualstate.com
- Pamphlets available at the Ruth Store (various topics, Ruth Survivor series)
- Books
- Marriage and Equality by Jennifer Johnson, (forward by Leila Miller)
- Primal Loss: The Now Adult Children of Divorce Speak by Leila Miller (forward by Jennifer Roback Morse)
- Videos from the Summit for Survivors of the Sexual Revolution, especially those by…
About the Ruth Institute
The Ruth Institute is a global non-profit organization, leading an international interfaith coalition to defend the family and build a civilization of love.
Jennifer Roback Morse has a Ph.D. in economics and has taught at Yale and George Mason University. She is the author of The Sexual State and Love and Economics – It Takes a Family to Raise a Village.
To schedule an interview with Dr. Morse, contact media@ruthinstitute.org.
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