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Do Kids belong to their Parents?
April 10, 2013 From the Desk of Carol Soelberg Four years ago I left a commission at the United Nations with the stark realization that Parent Rights would be the next BIG battle ground. We started immediately honing in on the social science that supported the myriad...
“Common” Children – Common Core
April 3, 2013 From the Desk of Carol Soelberg Don't you hate to sink your teeth into a wonderfully juicy looking apple only find the core distastefully rotten? In a very big and disappointing way that appears to be the case for most of us in the Common Core State...
Marriage Hangs in the Balance
March 26, 2013 Marriage hangs in the balance It is a pivotal time for marriage. On Tuesday, March 26, the Supreme Court listened to Oral Arguments on the future of Proposition 8 - California's Constitutional Amendment defining marriage as being between one man and...
Countries Manipulated by Media
March 20, 2013 Countries Manipulated by the Media Late on Friday, the UN negotiating room erupted in cheers as anti-family activists welcomed the adoption of the "Agreed Conclusions" for the Commission on Status of Women (CSW) 57th session. Two weeks of intense...
Parental Rights Matter
March 14, 2013 From the Desk of Carol Soelberg: It has been a very exciting week at the United Nation's Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). Because a consensus document was not reached last year, the opposition has pulled all stops to make sure all their...
Financial Security is born in the Family
March 7, 2013 From the Desk of Carol Soelberg: The manipulations and untruths have already begun. Monday marked the beginning of a two-week session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and United Families International has a team at the UN working almost...
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A Healing Choice
by Cathi Bond No one is perfect. We all make mistakes…therefore, we all need forgiveness. It’s our nature to help others, but sometimes we intentionally or carelessly disappoint and hurt too. Forgiveness is a process, not an event, which can be challenging when our...
UFI at the UN: Fighting for the Family
by Breaunna Stone Based out of New York City, and Geneva, Switzerland, the United Nations is a headquarters where countries come together to discuss and make decisions on international policy that ranges from the sanctity of life, to water quality, to economic policy....
What They Really Want
by Diane Robertson The organizers for the Women’s March, held in January, have organized another event for March 8th—“A Day Without a Woman”. The organizers are suggesting that women around the world “take the day off, from paid and unpaid labor, avoid shopping for...
A Snub or a Reset?
by Elise Ellsworth President Trump recently revoked Obama era federal guidelines instructing schools to let transgender students use bathrooms and other facilities which aligned with their gender identity. Many saw this revocation as an intentional snubbing of those...
Here’s One for the Boys
by Candice LeSueur I remember very distinctly when I realized how great it was to be a girl. I was 16 and was learning, as women, we have attributes that make us unique from men: among a wide array of countless traits, we have a great capacity to empathize with...
Motherhood is Joyful!
by Diane Robertson Once upon a time society approved of motherhood. Young women were encouraged to bare and rear children. Getting married and starting a family was sought after and expected. That’s not true today. In a high school class, my daughter was told she had...