We can take that power back, because every child’s right to the things they need – like having a voice that matters and is heard in their democracies – comes first, and overrides any authority those above us claim.
Funding every child’s right to a fair start in life – over competing rights – is the most just and effective solution to the many crises we face today.
It has an exponentially greater impact than most other interventions, many of which are being undone as children enter the world without the things they need. Ask anyone claiming to do good in the world how children being born without what they need undid the claimed benefit. Current policies have increased overall child abuse and neglect – including child torture and death, undone most of the efforts to mitigate climate change, degraded democracy and increased racial and other deadly inequities.
Any day that any person or organization does not start their work by shifting wealth to its obligation to fund a fair start in life for every child is a day we undo our work.
No child should ever be born outside a structure of debt/savings accounts that protect all children from the climate crisis by including and empowering them with their universal birthright. Our obligations to fund that accounting come before anything we do because it ensures fundamental justice; it creates the inclusive and empowering “we” that must come before all we do. Without this we can’t choose who has influence, and control, over us. We can’t be free.
TAKE ACTIONS: 1) Donate here to enable Fair Start to ensure family laws consistent with democracy, 2) sign here to say you think Fair Start overrides barriers – like claims to wealth that could instead be used to ensure better family planning, and 3) urge any charity you support – regardless of the issue – to admit not prioritizing funded fair starts in life for all kids did more harm to their missions than they did good.
