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Women Today Have to Worry About Having Even One Child Because Some People – Like the Baldwins – Had Huge Families

Jan 24, 2023 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, News & Updates, Taking Action

The climate crisis is causing many to forgo children, even when they want them. Why consign a child to such an uncertain and dangerous future? How did this situation develop? Clearly having large and unsustainable families impacts the right of future persons to...

Matt Ball, Early Fair Start Organizer, Has a New Book Out!

Nov 7, 2022 | Featured Families, Headlines, News & Updates

Matt Ball, longtime activist, husband, father, and early member of the Fair Start Movement, recently published his third book, Losing My Religions. A mix of memoir, essays, musings, photography, and travel log, Losing tells the story of Matt’s efforts to make the...

The End of Roe: Pursuing Comprehensive Justice

Jun 26, 2022 | Featured Families, Headlines, News & Updates

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe. v Wade on June 24, 2022. This is a pivot point and a wake-up call that it is past time to address the injustice set in place by this ruling. It allows children to be born poor, and others rich. Some begin life in...

ExxonMobil’s Progress on Climate Misses Critical Factor: Humanity

Apr 21, 2022 | Featured Families, News & Updates, Taking Action

By Terra Walters, a concerned Texan. In honor of Earth Day 2022, we at the Fair Start Movement encourage ExxonMobil to include every child’s human right to a Fair Start as part of its commitment to meet standards set out in the Paris Agreement. To the leadership of...

If We Live in Economies Rather Than Democracies, Do We Have to Follow the Rules?

Jan 31, 2022 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Inequality, News & Updates

If you do a term search on Google for recent media regarding issues around human population growth, you will find that the vast majority of messaging tells us women are not having enough kids and that we are in a “baby bust.” In other words, we are not...

Take Action: More Royal Babies? We Can Do Better

Jan 28, 2022 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Inequality, Taking Action

Recently Prince William and Kate Middleton joked about having a fourth royal child. Many readers will remember that Fair Start Movement wrote to the Royal family some time ago urging them to publicly adopt just and sustainable family planning modeling instead....