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The Biggest Predictor of Student Success? Home and Family
There is a lot that we do as parents to provide our children the best education possible. We may choose the home we live in based on school districts and neighborhoods and associated schools. We may enroll our children in charter or private schools. We may have our...
Family-friendly Corporate Culture – A Win for All
As you read this, we are in the midst of the United Nations Civil Society Conference in Salt Lake City. Our road to this conference was a little rocky. When I announced the conference coming to Salt Lake City, I admitted that, even though the conference was about...
Don’t believe what you hear — money isn’t the leading cause of divorce
The financial news this week got a lot of people nervous. That’s understandable. The last economic downturn was painful. My husband is in the airline industry which was badly affected starting with 9/11. We call it the “lost decade.” For a workforce that is already...
Sex Selective Abortion: Where Have All the Girls Gone?
Hello Friends, In much of the world, women outnumber men in terms of population. This is usually attributable to greater life expectancy among women. War, disease and substance abuse impact males more than females and affect the ratios between men and women, with...
UN Women – Redefining Gender and Erasing Women
Hello Friends, I suppose we should get over being shocked, but just when you think you’ve seen, and heard, it all, the powers that be at the UN say something that leaves you just dumbfounded. This time around it was the director of UN Women that had us shaking our...
Family: The Key to Thriving Communities and Economies
Hello Friends, One of the best presentations at a recent UN event about families that I attended was given by Joseph Price, an economics professor at Brigham Young University. His presentation was titled “Household Family Structure and the Macroeconomic Welfare of...
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Emerging from the Crucible of the Coronavirus as a Stronger Family
Contributed by Tori Black Four weeks ago, I was skiing* down a hillside when my phone started dinging from multiple texts. The United Nations event that United Families International attends every year, and to which we bring university students eager to strengthen and...
How Extended Family Builds Resiliency
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Sign up for the latest from United Families International here. Contributed by Tori Black With news of an imminent coronavirus pandemic filling the airwaves and...
More women are in the workforce than men. Should we celebrate or be concerned?
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. By Jenet Erickson for United Families International A recent report from The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics lit up headlines across the nation: “Women now hold...
Not If, But When: Arming Our Girls for Menstruation Mishaps
by KayLynn Wheeler We have all heard the terms shark week, Aunt Flo, and the crimson wave. Many of us hear these terms and know instantly that someone is referring to her period. Even the word period is slang for menstruation. Yet, even with the acceptance of period...
The Equal Rights Amendment – Symbolism vs. Substance
Contributed by Tori Black Leap years are such an interesting phenomenon. The idea that there is this extra day once a year fascinated me as a child. I wondered if I would ever meet someone who was born on February 29th. It turns out one of my favorite comic operas...
Bella Thorne Became Bella Porn? A Research Response to an ex-Disney Princess
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Joey Sheppard Bell Thorne hit stardom with preteens and young teenagers alike when she starred in the record-breaking 2010 Disney TV show Shake...