Anyone who has spent any time in Washington, DC, or cities like it, has experienced the phenomenon: a young man and woman walking down the street, pushing a stroller—but in that stroller, there’s no baby. There’s a dog. It’s true.
In so many circles the decisions surrounding family formation, and especially children, are becoming nothing more than another lifestyle choice. We are increasing drinking the kool-aid as a culture, that children, similar to pets or a new car, are little more than a symbol of status or achievement. But children are so much more. And while children are a part of a family, they are also endowed with rights of their own.
Katy Faust, Founder and Director of Them Before Us, joins Tom Shakely and Noah Brandt to talk children’s rights, bioethics, and how we can strengthen the American family
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