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What Makes Pandemics Worse? Population Growth. Take Action.

Humans are shortsighted by nature. We experience something like the climate crisis or Covid-19, and our usual reaction is to look for an immediate…
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Kate Middleton Speaks for Children’s Rights to Equal Starts in Life

Kate Middleton is speaking out, urging the world to recognize that all children deserve an equal start in life. Unveiling the results of a…
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Having Kids: From 2020 Into 2021, Doing the Most Good

Want to make the world a better place? Nothing has a greater impact than universal policy reforms incentivizing smaller and more equitable families cooperatively investing more…
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Having Kids Statement on Ohio Supreme Court Opinion: Parents Need Not Support Their Kids?

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional a probate judge's order that an Ohio man who has 13 kids by nine mothers to avoid…
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Having Kids Co-Director Speaks Out for Fair Start

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Open Letter to Joe Biden’s Administration: The Most Effective 3 Changes for 2021

Having Kids is an international human rights organization dedicated to improving family planning systems worldwide with a simple idea: Every child has a fundamental…
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Matthew Yglesias: Discuss Your ‘One Billion Americans’ Proposal With a Small Family Advocate?

Matthew Yglesias' new book, "One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger," is the thought experiment the title implies: exploring policies that might increase the…
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Video: Sustainable and Responsible Family Planning – The Law Needs to Change.

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Tell Pope Francis That If He Wants Equity, He Should Support Fair Start

Pope Francis recently renewed his plea for economic equity in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, lamenting the failures of free-market capitalism as the…