Apr 30, 2021 | News & Updates
President Biden is unveiling his American Families Plan this week. It aims to support families with the cost of childcare, expanding child tax credits, providing paid family leave, among other things. But is this enough to meaningfully reduce U.S. inequality (the...
Apr 13, 2021 | Inequality, Taking Action
Members of Congress are urging President Biden to declare a climate emergency and use his presidential powers to take immediate action to address the crisis, which is quickly accelerating. Having Kids is urging Biden to do the same. Here’s why: The climate...
Dec 30, 2020 | fertility rates, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action
Humans are shortsighted by nature. We experience something like the climate crisis or Covid-19, and our usual reaction is to look for an immediate solution like emissions technology or a vaccine. But sometimes solving problems – especially global 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...
Sep 20, 2020 | News & Updates
Eleanor Roosevelt once said: “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” So why are we focused on two men fighting for a presidency, as if the idea of controlling our future were like some kind of football game? We tend to...