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...
Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
This year, Fairstartmovement.org is launching the Tell the Truth campaign, calling on prominent social justice figures to acknowledge their failures as the climate crisis worsens and claims millions of lives. At the root of these failures is the neglect of a...
Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
The climate crisis exposes a fundamental problem in public interest work: how can a system that perpetuates inequality and environmental destruction be truly in the public interest? Millions will die from heat waves, yet many charities and funders claim to be helping...
Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
In the mid-20th century, world leaders deliberately ignored the interests of future children and political equity when shaping reproductive rights. This likely stemmed from their unwillingness to invest in racially equitable birth, development, and emancipatory...
Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
Humans are animals, and our birth and development—our creation—are the greatest determinants of nonhuman suffering. Our creation also fundamentally shapes how our legal systems function, particularly through participatory democracy and representation. However,...
Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Seeds for the Future, Taking Action, Uncategorized
If you see Trump and Musk as threats to democracy, ask yourself: What has your company done—at the most fundamental level of empowering children at birth—to actually protect democracy? Does your company’s cost/benefit analysis account for ensuring children are born...
Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Families, Headlines, Inequality
The Issue at Hand Fair Start formed in response to widespread use of an illegal assessment and reporting standard by U.S. companies, nonprofits, media, and universities. This standard evades compliance with the Children’s Rights Convention and conceals climate...
Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Families, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
According to a ChatGPT chat on February 7, 2025: Population growth has significant implications for political equity, vote dilution, and political representation, particularly in democratic systems. Here’s how: Political Equity As populations grow, ensuring...
Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
Humans are animals. Recognizing this helps shift us away from anthropocentric thinking that drives the climate crisis and leads to mass suffering. Animal law isn’t just about legal protections for nonhumans; it’s about fostering relationships between humans and...
Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Inequality, Taking Action
(The following discusses legal and political theory. For a simpler read, see: Family Planning Offers the Best Means for Combating Climate Change: An Interview with Carter Dillard, Fair Start Movement (mahb.stanford.edu)) The Problem: A Broken System For decades,...
