(LifeSiteNews) — How does your state stack up when it comes to protecting children’s rights against LGBTQ+ policy harms put into place by woke leftist politicians and bureaucrats?
The global children’s rights organization Them Before Us (TBU) just released a new scorecard report that judges each state’s family policies on how well they prioritize children’s rights, including threats in parentage and marriage law, as well as threats from surrogacy, donor conception, and IVF.
The report shines a bright light on where children’s rights are being eroded — and where states have taken steps to protect them.
TBU’s stated goal is to “give advocates, lawmakers, and citizens the tools they need to understand the landscape, push back against harmful policies, and champion reforms that put children first.”
The report’s findings are shocking.
“The grades are in and they aren’t good. Nearly two-thirds of all states received a letter grade of C or worse,” TCU noted in a post on X. “States have been prioritizing what’s popular culturally over what is best for children, and it shows.”
Only one state, Nebraska, received an A- grade. Just four states received a B and 14 received a B-. With the exception of Wisconsin and Virginia, which received B- grades, all states with B- or higher grades are considered “Red” states.
Nine states received grades in the D range while four states and the District of Columbia earned an F. With the possible exception of Nevada, the states with the lowest grades are considered to be “Blue” states.
Washington, D.C., seat of the federal government, has the distinction of having scored the lowest.
You can quickly check out your state’s performance here or view the full 81-page report that provides in-depth scoresheets on each state here.
We graded all 50 states on how family law treats children. Only 𝐨𝐧𝐞 state earned an A.
𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 🧵👇 pic.twitter.com/zLwPlLmuqP
— Them Before Us (@ThemBeforeUs) May 20, 2026
“Children’s rights are under attack — and one of the clearest signs is the ongoing breakdown and redefinition of the family,” the TBU report noted, explaining:
Some changes have been sweeping and obvious: the 50-state domino effect of no-fault divorce beginning in 1969, or the Supreme Court’s redefinition of marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015. Others have been quieter but just as damaging: the replacement of “mother” and “father” with gender-neutral “parentage” terms, the spread of reproductive technologies like surrogacy and donor conception, and the legal recognition of multiple unrelated adults as “parents.” Together, these shifts deny children their natural rights to their own mother and father.
Too often, laws and policies prioritize adult desires over children’s needs. From laws that stamp the state’s seal of approval on surrogacy to administrative changes in states’ Vital Records, children are increasingly treated as commodities instead of people with inherent rights.
Them Before Us is also spearheading a massive national campaign, known as the Greater Than, to overturn Obergefell – the Supreme Court’s ill-conceived 2015 ruling instituting homosexual “marriage.”
The campaign highlights the destructive impact Obergefell has had on family law and the disastrous commodification of children that has resulted. Recent stories of children being mass-produced, acquired by convicted sex offenders, and procured by elderly retirees were all made possible by the Obergefell-driven legal validation of adult desires and identities. Greater Than centers on the true victims – children deprived of their mother or father – rather than adults who mistake unfulfilled wants for harm.