by United Families International | Jan 17, 2011 | Birth Rate, Cohabitation, Marriage, Myth Buster, Schools, UFI Blog
We regularly read of the need for more sex education in our schools in an effort to avoid teen pregnancy. Shows like Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant garner lots of attention and add to the perception that the biggest problem with out-wedlock-child bearing can be found...
by United Families International | Dec 14, 2010 | Birth Rate, Demographic Decline, Environmentalism, UFI Blog
“Poverty: Where we all Started” is the title of a clever video produced by Population Research Institute (PRI). It discusses some of the myths surrounding poverty reduction. “Reducing the number of people in the world doesn’t make those who remain any...
by United Families International | Nov 29, 2010 | Abortion, Birth Rate, Demographic Decline, Environmentalism, Population Control, UFI Blog
Two articles. One telling me that there are too many people on the planet and one telling me that there aren’t enough. That’s what appeared in my inbox this week. I’m always a little taken back…and extremely skeptical… when I see a headline stating that the...
by United Families International | Aug 13, 2010 | Birth Rate, UFI Blog, UN
That’s the question we asked our UFI readers last week. As you can see from the percentages below, it is a question where few people agree on the answer—including those who control the purse strings of international funding institutions tasked with dispersing funds...
by United Families International | Jul 30, 2010 | Abortion, Birth Rate, Same-Sex Attraction, UFI Blog, UN
The Russian Federation was pleased to report to the U.N.’s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee that, for the first time in decades, the Russian birth rate now exceeds their abortion rate—a change that should be...
by United Families International | Jun 30, 2010 | Birth Rate, Population Control, UFI Blog
If the man who was instrumental in helping to eradicate small pox knows what he’s talking about, humans will be extinct in 100 years. The question is: “Does he?” Professor Frank Fenner (professor emeritus at the Australian National University) believes man will be...
