by United Families International | Jul 30, 2015 | Cohabitation, Divorce, Marriage, UFI Blog
By Jimmy Bridges Toward the close of our wedding reception, my wife and I said our goodbyes to family and friends. One particular guest, age 21, parted with the following words, “congratulations you two, I hope it lasts.” There was a strange casual, uneasiness in his...
by United Families International | Jul 7, 2015 | Abstinence, Child Development, Choice, Cohabitation, Divorce, Family, Feminism, Free Speech, Freedom, Health Care, Marriage, Media, Parents, Research, Sexual Freedom, Single Mothers, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
“Marriage is dead,”. . . or, at least, no longer necessary was the Nietzchean-like declaration of two young, female writers in Newsweek. In an article entitled “The Case Against Marriage,” Jessica Bennett and Jesse Ellison lay-out with dismissive nonchalance,...
by United Families International | Jun 30, 2015 | Child Development, Divorce, Family, Gender Identity, Marriage, Parents, Same-Sex Attraction, Same-Sex Marriage, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
The happy “same-sex family” is more often than not built upon the back of a destroyed mother/father heterosexual family. In the same-sex marriage debate, how often have you heard this snarkily-delivered question: “Well, how does a same-sex marriage harm your...
by United Families International | Jun 12, 2015 | Child Development, Choice, Divorce, Drug Use, Education, Family, father, Marriage, motherhood, Parents, Religion, Sanctity of Life, Schools, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
by Tom Christensen When driving through the arid national pine forests of Montana, Colorado, Utah and Arizona, one cannot help but notice large numbers of dead trees. Mountain pine beetles about the size of a grain of rice bore into, lay their eggs, feed on and...
by United Families International | May 27, 2015 | Abortion, Child Development, Choice, Cohabitation, Diane Robertson, Divorce, Drug Use, Education, Family, father, Free Speech, Marriage, Religion, Religious Freedom, Same-Sex Marriage, Sanctity of Life, Single Mothers, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
by Diane Robertson During a panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University, President Obama, and Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam chided Christian religious organizations for focusing too heavily on “divisive issues” such as abortion and gay marriage. The New...
by United Families International | May 6, 2015 | Child Development, Divorce, UFI Blog
Author’s name with held by request On October 26th, 2013 a phone call changed my world forever and caused me to reevaluate just how much my family had been impacted by my parent’s divorce. “I have terrible news,” my father said–a phrase that would prove to...
