The Lila Rose Show E294: The Truth About Big Fertility, No-Fault Divorce, and Same-Sex Households | Lila Rose Show
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Feb 20, 2026 
Katy Faust, founder of Them Before Us and child-focused advocate, challenges modern family trends. She connects surrogacy, IVF, no-fault divorce, and same-sex parenting to shifting priorities away from children. Conversations cover surrogacy risks, research on same-sex households, mother and father roles, and alarming stories from the fertility market.
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Surrogacy Vs. Adoption: Opposite Models
- Surrogacy legally severs children's ties to their birth mothers before birth via pre-birth orders.
- Katy Faust contrasts adoption's child-centered safeguards with surrogacy's marketplace for adults.
Protect Children In Reproductive Policy
- Scrutinize surrogacy and donor arrangements as they remove biological and birth attachments.
- Prioritize policies that protect children's identity, attachment, and maternal bonds over adult convenience.
Unrelated Adults Raise Child Risk
- Unrelated adults in a household increase children's risk of abuse and neglect.
- Faust cites decades of family-structure research showing biological parents are more protective and invested.