The Mission of Stand with Children

Mission

1. 
   

   Promote the reality that marriage unites a man and a woman with each other and any children born from their union.

2. 
   

   Stand with the common interest that each and therefore every child without exception has in knowing and being cared for, as far as possible, by his or her mother and father preferably united in marriage.

3. 
   

   Promote the recognition of this interest by laws, societal institutions, and individuals.

About Stand with Children

“The child has the right to be . . . brought up within marriage: it is through the secure and recognized relationship to his own parents that the child can discover his own identity and achieve his own proper human development. The parents find in their child . . . the permanent sign of their conjugal union, the living and indissoluble concrete expression of their paternity and maternity”

Donum Vitae
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 1987