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...
Feb 25, 2024 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality
Joyce Tischler is rightly regarded by many as key to the flourishing of modern animal law as an area of study, practice, and discipline. She has this to say about Fair Start, and the idea of getting ahead of the threats animals face by changing our basic family...
Feb 25, 2024 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality
Professor Jose Barrientos-Rastrojo is a brilliant ethicist and professor at the University of Seville (Spain). He had this to say about the Fair Start movement: Hace unos días, me entrevisté con Carter Dillard, un abogado estadounidense con avezadas ideas para...
Feb 16, 2024 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates
“”We are at a crossroads of human civilization – where we find ourselves facing many symptoms of ecological overshoot playing out in our climate, the loss and degradation of Nature and environmental resources, and social, economic and political tensions....
Feb 13, 2024 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
“I advocate that Black birth equity, through reparations, should be the primary action taken to resolve consequences such as corporation induced climate change — in particular, because those who are negatively impacted the most are Black...
Jan 28, 2024 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
A mistake in mid-20th century environmental policymaking allowed extreme wealth to be made at deadly cost to others, and according to a growing body of peer-reviewed research, in violation of the most fundamental human right. As the climate worsens we can move that...
Jan 20, 2024 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
A phrase like “false premise” sounds like philosophy talk, and hardly relevant to our day to day life. But all it really means is that someone is making an argument, or doing something, which they would justify by referring to something that is not true....
Jan 18, 2024 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
Free people feel obligated to follow the law because their legal system first empowered them – through birth and development conditions, with with a role in making the law and and thus ensuring the capacity for each to choose who has influence (including...
Jan 17, 2024 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
According to a growing body of peer-reviewed research, systems that provide no minimum protections for the most vulnerable, protections like equitable birth and development conditions for children and thus protections for the environment they will need, lead to...
Jan 16, 2024 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action, Uncategorized
The Vatican has for decades urged family planning policies that attempted to grow the base of the church, and its income, in a way that destroyed our environment and now threatens to kill millions. Their policies enriched themselves at deadly costs to others. ...