Ep 02: Defending Childhood: Prioritising Kids' Rights with Katy Faust
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In episode two we're diving into the heated debate of children's well-being within family dynamics with our guest, Katy Faust, from Them Before Us.
Katy confronts the notion that adults' desires should come before children's rights, advocating for the vital biological bond between parent and child. We'll tackle tough topics like surrogacy, same-sex parenting, and the effects of separating children from their biological roots.
Prepare for a challenging discussion on societal trends that often overlook the long-term impact on the youngest and most vulnerable among us. Katy offers her powerful perspective on raising kids in today's world, looking for love with values in mind, and the personal and societal implications of non-traditional family arrangements.
Join us for this bold exploration of what it truly means to put "Them Before Us."
Here are the Highlights:
04:23 Personal desires must be sacrificed for children's rights.
08:47 Research shows that biological parents are the most connected, invested, and protective of their children.
12:24 Identity crisis after discovering hidden biological parentage.
15:21 Adults dominate marriage and family conversations, prioritising their desires and struggles while children have to accept their decisions.
18:58 Katy believes future studies will prove the natural law's validation of the importance of biological parents, and complimentary benefits offered by both mothers and fathers
24:44 Public sympathy for adult choices and freedoms.
29:55 Generation damaged by lack of commitment in relationships.
33:08 Unplanned childlessness affects 22-25% of women, a high figure considering that only 5 to 8% of women never want children.
39:46 Navigating conservative parenting in a hostile, woke city.
45:46 Uncover values and compatibility before getting involved in a partnership.
About Katy Faust
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. She detailed her philosophy of worldview transmission in her book, “Raising Conservative Kids in a Woke City”. She and her pastor husband are raising their four children in Seattle.
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About Kat Kuczynska
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Successful entrepreneur and a mother turns into a wisdom seeker to figure out how to thrive in an ever-changing and challenging world.
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