There are three main threats to the traditional family structure, says Katie Faust, founder and president of the global children’s rights nonprofit. Before Us” she told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview at Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit (YWLS).
Faust, an advocate for the traditional family structure and children’s rights, spoke to Breitbart News on a range of family issues, from IVF to no-fault divorce. But when asked what needs to be done to re-define the traditional family structure, Faust pointed to three main threats to it.
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“There are three main threats to the traditional family structure: culture, law and technology. Culturally, we need to dismantle the myths that love makes a family, that happy adults mean happy children, and that kids don’t need a mommy or a daddy, they just need to be safe and loved,” she said. “We know what kids need to thrive: a mother and father who love them and who love each other in a lifelong marriage.”
“Statistically, that’s what kids need,” she said, warning against what she called “a cultural mantra that love makes a family” that “intentionally inflicts the loss of a mother or father on children and calls it progress.”
“So culturally, we need to fight these changes. Legally, we need to regain the ground we’ve lost on marriage. Marriage is a matter of justice for children, and the government should prioritize, encourage and promote the only family structure children need: the traditional family, where children can build a family without losing their mother or their father,” she said, urging Americans to “reject no-fault divorce.”
“We need to reclaim traditional marriage. We need to reject attempts to normalize polygamy. So legally, we have a lot of work to do. And technically, we are producing children without mothers and fathers through reproductive technologies. So we need to fight the efforts to commodify children that are being pushed by state after state in the reproductive world,” she added.
Faust elaborated on one of the issues she mentioned, no-fault divorce, which, in her view, “actually gives the most power to the parent who least wants the marriage.”
“This system actually gives the greatest impact to the parent who is least committed to the marriage. In many cases, a no-fault divorce is a one-sided divorce, a one-sided divorce against a spouse who is trying to honor their marital vows and maintain family unity or who wants what’s best for their children,” she said, adding that no-fault divorce “doesn’t free women from abusive marriages.”
“It does happen sometimes. The majority of no-fault divorces today are the dissolution of low-conflict marriages. Sure, these marriages are dealing with some of the common issues in marriage, some of which are quite serious, but the majority of marriages riddled with abuse, infidelity or addiction are not no-fault divorces,” she said, noting that the majority are “irreconcilable differences, which is really just an implication that adults aren’t doing the hard things necessary to save their marriage.”
“And as a result, parents end up separating and living separately, which creates hardships for children,” she added.
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