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An infographic titled The Fair Start Model explains how parents, communities, and small sustainable families work together to ensure a fair start and high quality of life for all kids.

Children's Rights

Fair Start Family Planning: The Frontier of Social Justice?

The idea that every kid deserves a fair start in life — and that ensuring this fair start is the most effective way to…July 29, 2020 · 2 min read

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Children's Rights

Why Conservatives Should Support Family Planning Reform

David Brooks recently made an argument in The New York Times that should resonate with conservatives: Inequity, and many other related crises, stem from…July 29, 2020 · 4 min read

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Children's Rights

Why Good Family Planning Is the First Human Right and Responsibility

Do the family planning policies in your country ensure all children receive what they need to succeed and a fair start in life relative…July 20, 2020 · 2 min read

A man in a red military uniform places a ring on a woman’s finger. The woman is wearing a white lace wedding dress and veil, smiling brightly. They stand together on a red carpet.

Children's Rights

Kate Middleton: Can We Improve Our Kids’ Future?

Having Kids has quite a history urging the royal family to take the lead on helping the world transition from a parent-focused family planning…July 17, 2020 · 2 min read

People at a climate protest hold colorful signs, including one shaped like Earth that says WAKE UP and another reading ACT NOW OR SWIM LATER. Trees and a clear sky are visible in the background.

Children's Rights

World Population Day: Target the People Threatening Our Future

A universal policy promoting smaller and more equitable families is the most effective way to protect our future - ten to twenty times more…July 8, 2020 · 2 min read

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Children's Rights

Covid-19 and Family Planning: Get the Facts

As the pandemic kills millions, governments and public health officials rarely want to talk about family planning and the factors that fundamentally drive pandemics.…July 6, 2020 · 3 min read Children's Rights

The Fourth of July: Can We Really Become Free?

Freedom is a complex concept that has little to do with beer and fireworks, and more to do with a form of political evolution…July 3, 2020 · 2 min read

A woman with wavy hair carries a baby in a green sling on her back, standing on a muddy field and looking at cows grazing in the foggy distance.

Children's Rights

Real Animal Rights Starts With Fair Start Family Planning

Having Kids researchers recently published an article in Animal People Forum. The thesis: How could there be a coherent conception of nonhuman rights that…June 27, 2020 · 1 min read

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Children's Rights

Fair Start Family Planning: Using One Problem to Solve Others

The pandemic is a good time for the uber-wealthy, the few thousand billionaires who together hold more wealth than 60% of the people on…June 22, 2020 · 2 min read

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