Inequality | Having Kids

Biden Should Declare a Climate Emergency to Ensure the First Human Right

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...

The New York Times Pushes Women to Have Kids. Take Action.

Apr 13, 2021 | fertility rates, Inequality, Taking Action

Every crisis we face, from the climate to Covid-19, is a function of family planning laws and policies that actually do nothing to ensure planning. They do nothing to give children minimum levels of welfare, or birth equity, and nothing to promote sustainable...

Who Are “Precons” and Why Do They Matter?

Apr 11, 2021 | fertility rates, Inequality, News & Updates, Taking Action

For many reasons it’s popular today to want to eliminate divisions between people in an effort to unite. But sometimes divisions are crucial, in identifying racists and racism for example. The same can apply to a new form of division that could move the world towards...

A Short History of How We Ruined Our Planet and Became Vastly Unequal, and What to Do About It

Apr 9, 2021 | fertility rates, Inequality, Taking Action

In the 20th Century world population growth exploded. That growth is continuing, along with massive inequity of wealth and power between the rich and poor. In the mid to late 20th Century world leaders faced the task of addressing that growth, and other social and...

Freedom Though Reproductive Justice: Watch the Values Align

Apr 9, 2021 | fertility rates, Inequality

Fair Start family planning and reproductive justice reforms are simple and their impact is unrivaled. Specific, concrete, and enforceable standards for all three aspects of this Fair Start model are spelled out, in context, here. But what makes the modeling unique is...

A Funder Has Broken From the Fold: Supporting Fair Start Over Population-Driven Investments

Apr 9, 2021 | fertility rates, Inequality, Taking Action

Many large funders and philanthropists profess to want to have an impact on things like the climate crisis, economic inequity, and child and animal abuse. And the impact of family planning reform on all of these things is unparalleled, and well established. But many...