Them Before Us

Them Before Us Them Before Us advocates for adults doing hard things so children don't have to. We aren’t professional writers or pedigreed activists.

There’s nothing exceptional about the people behind Them Before Us. We are just people who think that children deserve to be the primary consideration when considering what is best for, well, children. We are ordinary people willing to state the cost that children, as well as society, pay when children are deprived of their fundamental needs. We believe that in discussions on marriage and family

structure, the voices of children should take center stage. That's why every article, story, and study will center, not around adult desires, but around children's rights. We are ordinary people who have decided that, regardless of being labeled *insert insulting dismissive name calling here*, telling the truth about children is more important than our comfort. It doesn’t take expensive collegiate letters after your name to fight for children’s rights, it requires that you possess something infinitely more valuable. It requires courage. Courage to state the obvious- children need their mother and father. If only courage were as easy to obtain as a degree.

We keep treating the fertility crisis like a policy problem.More leave. More childcare. More subsidies.But what if the p...
09/04/2026

We keep treating the fertility crisis like a policy problem.

More leave. More childcare. More subsidies.

But what if the problem runs deeper than that?

A new Chicago Fed paper points to something much more uncomfortable: when women’s wages rise, fertility falls. When men’s wages rise, fertility rises.

The question isn’t just how to make motherhood cheaper. It’s whether we’ve built a culture that makes motherhood too costly in the first place.

Read the full piece, Money and Motherhood, on Substack.

Katy Faust vs. The Log Cabin Republicans?
09/03/2026

Katy Faust vs. The Log Cabin Republicans?

09/03/2026

A brand new database just dropped to help Chinese buyers find American surrogate wombs.

09/01/2026

IVF kills more humans than abortion.

Unrelated adults do not advantage children. 🥲
09/01/2026

Unrelated adults do not advantage children. 🥲

Women deserve more than “empowerment” marketing. They deserve the full picture.Egg freezing is sold as control, security...
08/31/2026

Women deserve more than “empowerment” marketing. They deserve the full picture.

Egg freezing is sold as control, security, and time. But the conversation rarely stops to ask what the process actually requires, what risks women take on, or what happens to the embryos created through IVF.

AOC says she wants to normalize the conversation. Fine. Then let’s normalize telling the whole truth about it.

Read the full piece on Them Before Us Substack.

08/30/2026

The Log Cabin Republicans have decided to drop the “T” from the LGBT in their advocacy. Log Cabin Republicans

CNN may not agree with us, but their own reporting makes one thing clear: the pro-child case is being heard.From gender ...
08/26/2026

CNN may not agree with us, but their own reporting makes one thing clear: the pro-child case is being heard.

From gender medicine and girls’ sports to surrogacy, marriage, and adoption, conversations that were once considered off-limits are now happening in the mainstream.

And buried in the article? A mention of the coalition Them Before Us is leading through Greater Than. 👋

The question we’ll keep asking is simple: What does the child need, and what does the child lose?

Keep putting children first. The culture is listening.

Turns out fighting for the rights of children is pretty chic. 🤍Marriage. Motherhood. Children’s rights. Books. Churches....
08/26/2026

Turns out fighting for the rights of children is pretty chic. 🤍

Marriage. Motherhood. Children’s rights. Books. Churches. Coalition-building. And, apparently, dancing to American Pie in D.C.

A little tribute to Katy Faust and the life she’s built around this conviction: children deserve to come first.

08/25/2026

I think we have a double standard when it comes to fatherlessness.

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