Jul 31, 2022 | Headlines, News & Updates
As the climate crisis deepens, with massive heatwaves killing untold number of people, and pregnant women and infants being harmed by even the current rise in world temperature, many are wondering how the world came to such a state. Many nonprofits have been touting...
Apr 21, 2021 | fertility rates, Inequality, Taking Action
In the 20th Century world population growth exploded. That growth is continuing, and fundamentally driving massive inequity of wealth and power between the rich and poor as the conditions of our birth hang upon us throughout our lives. We are getting more crowded and...
Dec 16, 2020 | News & Updates
Having Kids is an international human rights organization dedicated to improving family planning systems worldwide with a simple idea: Every child has a fundamental human right to a Fair Start in life, ecologically and socially, which overrides all competing...
Apr 20, 2026 | Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
Professors are influential, and when they make public benefit claims, they should do some from clear baselines, and in a way that does not hide inequitable and disenfranchising growth. Not dealing with baselines is evidence to support the Fair Start thesis: That...
Apr 7, 2026 | Inequality, News & Updates, Seeds for the Future
World leaders, not everyday people, created a climate and inequity crisis that is killing millions. And they did it by valuing some children over others, and in ways that were illegal. Joseph Chamie is a prolific writer in the area of population and development, and...
Apr 1, 2026 | Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates
University of Denver Sturm College of Law is facing increased scrutiny in Colorado and California following written inquiries and regulatory referrals concerning donor-fund governance and undisclosed baseline assumptions underlying the law school’s public-facing...
Apr 1, 2026 | News & Updates
Why Baselines Matter — And Why We Built www.FalseClaimsChecker.org Across public-interest work — from animal advocacy to climate to social policy — institutions regularly claim progress. They report impact. They describe success. They ask for trust. But far too often,...
Mar 27, 2026 | fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Seeds for the Future
Treating humans as numbers, and framing the world’s crises in terns of population, hides political inequity – the true driver of the crisis. It hides legitimate demands for birth equity reparations, putting millions of lives at risk. Nandita Bajaj leads...
Mar 17, 2026 | Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
Did the University of Denver really spend millions of dollars to create charade of animal liberation, saving a few here and there, while embracing an underlying model of animal propertyhood, birth inequity, and unsustainable growth that kills countless more, and harms...
Mar 13, 2026 | fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Seeds for the Future, Taking Action
What if one could sue to protect one’s effective voice in their democracy, and to be able to meaningfully control the outcomes of their political system. At Fair Start, we think people can do that, and that governments are obligated to ensure that their...
Mar 13, 2026 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates
Are you getting scammed by performative public interest work that on balance creates private benefits at public cost? Scammers engaged in illegal baselining / equity fraud disenfranchise children of color, treating them as deserving less than white children, and...
Mar 9, 2026 | Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
Those claiming to prevent such threats – especially lawyers – used a deceptive system of moving goalposts to constantly assess progress and raise funding. But relative to the fixed standard – child/political equity – that was necessary to...