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Stay Alive (HIV/Aids Program) is Saving Lives!
Hello Friends: United Families International is the proud sponsor of Stay Alive, the highly successful HIV/AIDs prevention program. Today, we wanted to bring you an update on this outstanding program. Since 2001, the Stay Alive Program has been taught in nine...
Marriage and Traditional Family the Target of Agressive Activists
Marriage and Traditional Families the Target of Aggressive Activists The last few weeks have seen United Families staff extremely busy. The UN Third Committee Meetings in New York always generate lots of resolutions that need to be monitored and language inserted or...
Giving Thanks to You and Your Family
In the U.S., it is the week that we'll be celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday, but you may not know that it is also the time that the nation celebrates National Family Week. Our United Families Utah chapter sent out a wonderful note of thanks to all their members. ...
Protecting the Family Comes at a Price
Protecting the family comes at a price! United Families International has been protecting and strengthening families since 1978. After successfully battling the anti-life, anti-traditional family agenda of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the USA, UFI followed...
Good News for Parents!
Good News for Parents "The family is the cornerstone of our society. More than any other force it shapes the attitude, the hopes, the ambitions, and the values of the child. And when the family collapses it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on...
A Key to Preserving the Family: Get Out and Vote!
A Key to Preserving the Family: Get out and vote! I have been involved in the trenches of popular electoral politics for my entire adult life. Experiences gained in these years led me into involvement with United Families International. And while UFI is a...
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Bringing Refuge to Refugees
By Candice LeSueur A few months ago, I was informed a family had moved from Haiti into our area and needed help learning English. They were not living in the most ideal of circumstances and, therefore, fled their native country and arrived here via asylum. It wasn’t...
Iowa Challenges Separation of Church and State
by Diane Robertson We all know the phrase “separation of church and state”. It was taught us in school and atheists use it all of the time to reprimand people for holding prayer at public events. Of course the intended meaning wasn’t the absence of religion in the...
Home school. Is it for you?
By Cinthia Jahnsen Have you ever thought of homeschooling as an option for your child’s education? My kids go to public school right now and I have loved their teachers. However, I do not love how much teachers seem to be losing their authority on how and what they...
Independence Day for Pioneers
by Erin Weist The month of July is an important one for the United States in remembering freedom from tyranny: Independence Day remembers our separation from the monarchy of Great Britain. But people in my state also celebrate a similar date in July. Utah celebrates...
Goodbye Old House
By Shanci Christensen The door slammed shut as if it were shouting, “Goodbye old house!” I locked the door behind him and then stood in the kitchen with my hands shaking and my heart pounding. “Did I do the right thing?” I heard a noise behind me and turned to see...
The Power of Conversation
Photo: vhines200/Creative Commons By Candice LeSueur I excitedly was able to check another thing off my bucket list this last weekend as I flew out to see my friend in San Francisco, a city I have been dying to visit. As she and I were strolling down Valencia Street...