Fair Start Movement

Category: Calls to Action & Petitions

  • Take Action for the Climate!

    Take Action for the Climate!

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    [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]Are you sick of hearing about climate change without being able to do anything truly meaningful about it? But we can take action! Today Having Kids is launching our Protect Your World campaign. It’s simple:

    We all know that if you want to better the world, you can think globally but need to act locally. And when it comes to mitigating climate change (and almost every other way we are destroying our children’s environment), the best way is by working with others to plan smaller and more sustainable families.

    Having Kids is working with local governments to adopt policies, often as part of their Climate Action Plans, to:

    • Explicitly recognize (in their climate action plan or in other ways) the role family planning plays in climate change;
    • Endorse and/or implement any family planning model that promotes smaller, more sustainable, and more equitable families that provide every child a fair start.

    You can make this case in your community, too!

    Please start with this sample letter, and use it to open a dialogue with your local town, city, or county government about the need to take a position on family planning.

    You can contact us to assist with the process.

    The best way to protect your world is by changing the way we all plan families.

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  • Can Sub-Replacement Fertility Work? Just Ask Japan.

    Can Sub-Replacement Fertility Work? Just Ask Japan.

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    Japan now has a “birthrate czar,” Katsunobu Kato, who is tasked with urging women to become pregnant to stabilize Japan’s population at about 100 million as it falls from a current ~125 million. In 2015, Kato oversaw about 32 billion dollars of public funding to stabilize the birthrate at a sub-replacement level of 1.8 children per woman, using a variety of interventions. According to Kato, the government envisions a less populous Japan, but one where “all Japanese people and people of all ages and sexes–including those who have failed… can dream and hope to create a society heading forward.”

    Some are asking why Japan is investing so much in creating additional people rather than investing in the children and adults that are there now. When pressed, Kato cited economic growth rates as the reason for massive investment. But are there values other than economic growth rates that should also be considered? What about restoring the nonhuman world, investing more individualized attention in each child, and creating communities small enough and with enough in common for people to feel connected to one another? That sounds good to us.

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