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...
Dec 9, 2023 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
Lawyers, tasked with interfacing between citizens and their legal obligations, are key to upholding the legitimacy of any law-making political system. And since at least the Enlightenment, the legitimacy of political systems has been contingent upon those systems...
Dec 7, 2023 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action, Uncategorized
By Esther Afolaranmi In the battle against misleading environmental claims, the Fair Start Certification emerges as a beacon of transparency and authenticity. This innovative certification program stands at the forefront, aiming to dismantle the deceitful practices...
Dec 5, 2023 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates
IPCC’s repeated Planetary 2030 Climate Crisis Carbon Pollution Reduction Deadline, requires roughly an 840 gigaton / $30 trillion reduction, which includes accelerating positive feedback loops like wildfire pollution and methane releases from melting permafrost...
Dec 5, 2023 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
How do we ensure funding that ensures young women harmed by the climate crisis can have their children at a time, place and with resources the protect their and the child’s equity? Problem: Climate and other ecological crises are set to kill million of those...
Dec 5, 2023 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
Many will die as the climate crisis quickly unfolds. And yet over the last few decades politicians, oil CEOs, scammy nonprofits, and others blocked reforms that could have saved many of those lives. And they did it by lying about what we owe children, and the mothers...
Dec 4, 2023 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates
The extreme wealth we see in the world today was made by through a system of unsustainable growth, and illegitimate cost/benefit models, that forced costs on most vulnerable and degraded the climate in a way that is taking millions of innocent lives. The most...
Dec 1, 2023 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
An Alternative Way to Think About Legitimate Policymaking: Always Starting With Birth Equity and Children’s Rights, and Investing in Democracy Rather Than Exploiting Children’s Positionality for Economic Growth Dear President Saller, The Fair Start...
Nov 30, 2023 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
Would it be wrong for a young woman with little wealth or income intending to become a mother to demand birth equity resources – resources that simply ensure a level playing field for her child and thus offset the harm – from a wealthy family that externalized the...
Nov 22, 2023 | Featured Families, fertility rates, Headlines, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
Why a Universal Tribunal? Reliance on any basic norm, political obligation, or fundamental baseline for cost/benefit assessment other than a just and inclusive (pro)creation norm is a logical fallacy. In other words, to properly assess costs and benefits we have to...
