Katy Faust: From Anonymous Blogger to Global Voice for Kids

Katy Faust’s own childhood - her parents’ divorce, split households, and years of quietly people-pleasing the new partners - sits behind the things she now advocates for in public.

In this wide-ranging conversation, she traces that story through her conversion to Christianity, the rage that turned her into an accidental activist against gay marriage and the step to start an anonymous blog that attracted a lot of hate.

Eventually, her identity was revealed and her greatest fears came true - they went after her family and her church. This is when the elders decided that she should “go big” rather than stop. This was the beginning of her public advocacy - standing against some of the big culture war issues of our day: gay marriage, divorce, abortion, and reproductive technologies on behalf of children.

She is the founder of Them Before Us - an organisation that fights for children’s right to their mother and father in courts, culture and legislatures.

In this interview, Katy shares her hard-won thoughts on marriage, motherhood, and the cost of telling the truth.

About Katy Faust

Katy Faust didn’t set out to become an activist. She was a pastor’s wife and stay-at-home mother when cultural conversations around marriage and family began to shift dramatically. As debates intensified, one question kept surfacing. Who is speaking for the children? That question led Katy to launch an anonymous blog defending the rights of children in marriage and family policy. What began as a small online voice quickly gained traction. Within a few years she was writing for national publications, speaking around the world, and eventually founding the global children’s rights movement Them Before Us. Today, Katy is a leading voice in the conversation about marriage, family, and child-centred policy.

Key Moments & Highlights

- Katy shares her “three staples of a child’s social-emotional diet” - mother’s love, father’s love and stability

- The honest admission that as a child she learned to “people please” the new partners entering her parents’ lives, just to keep them close

- Why it took her four years after becoming a Christian to "love God with all my mind," especially on sexuality and morality

- "I don’t have mums. I have a mother and a father like everybody else" — Katy on why she distinguishes her mother’s partner from her mother