Them Before Us

We are excited to be joined by Katy Faust, founder and director of Them Before Us, a childrens’ rights organisation. Katy is committed to putting the needs of children at the forefront of the battle surrounding the very foundation of our society – marriage and family. Her latest book Them Before Us, Why We Need a Global Children’s Rights Movement has won much praise, winning Book of the Year by the Ruth Institute and receiving praise from Muslim audience:

“An essential read in moments like ours, Faust and Manning’s Them Before Us offers an important intervention into a world increasingly defined by the needs, desires, and fashions of adults by foregrounding our most vulnerable: children. In so doing, they animate an altogether different conversation about marriage and family, one that centers on the care of children and the cultivating of a context that is most receptive to their needs and, critically, protective of their rights.”
—Mobeen Vaid, Muslim Chaplain at George Mason University

“Amidst the legal scuffling over no-fault divorce, marriage equality, and the unregulated fields of surrogacy and in-vitro-fertilization, so many have lost sight of, perhaps, the most vulnerable members of society whose suffering has been the unforeseen unintended consequence of our own self-absorption: children. This trailblazing work by Katy Faust and Stacy Manning provides significant cause for reflection and a most ethical rationalization for opposing the flawed notion that a child merely needs the love of ‘anyone’ in order to have a healthy upbringing. ‘Consent’-supremacy in the validation of adult sexual relationships has ignored the psycho-emotional and developmental needs of children to the extent that the harm caused remains hidden from the public. Enter Them Before Us.”
—Dr. Abdullah b. Hamid Ali, Assistant Professor of Islamic Law, Zaytuna College, Berkeley, CA

Join us as we discuss themes from her book, notably

• Same-Sex Parents- Father/Mother Hunger.
• Donor Conception
• Gender Is Not a Social Construct.
• Redefining Marriage Has Redefined Parenthood
• Kids Don’t “Get Over” Divorce
• Transgender Parents
• Missing Half-Siblings
• Surrogacy
• Abortion
• Adoption Is for Children, Not Adults

Date: 28th August 2021

Time: 7pm BST (11am PDT)

Katy Faust is the 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.

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, LifeSiteNews.com, The Daily Signal, The Eric Metaxas Show, BreakPoint, and ABC Australia. She is a regular contributor at The Federalist. She has filed several 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 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 the mother of four children, the youngest of whom is adopted from China.