by United Families International | Mar 23, 2011 | Abortion, motherhood, UFI Blog
By Grace Sailor I personally want to thank Governor Dennis Daugaard of South Dakota for the law that will take effect on July 1, that requires a 3-day wait for an abortion and is requiring proper counseling and guidance on alternative decisions to keep the fetus. Even...
by United Families International | Mar 22, 2011 | Family, motherhood, Parents, UFI Blog, Values
*We welcome several new contributors to the United Families blog. They will be addressing issues relevant to families and particularly mothers.* By Rachel Allison I will always remember the phone call I received several years ago from my older sister. She was going...
by United Families International | Mar 7, 2011 | Child Development, motherhood, Myth Buster, Schools, UFI Blog
While enrollment of children in pre-schools and kindergarten is for the most part optional, “early learning” advocates and the daycare lobbyists continue in their efforts to make preschool mandatory. These folks insist that pre-k programs promote “school readiness”...
by United Families International | Mar 1, 2011 | motherhood, Religion, Religious Freedom, Transgender, UFI Blog, UN
Last year at the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), religion in general was public enemy number one. This year the feminists have refined and re-framed their argument to unabashedly make “Religious Fundamentalism” their target. What is their definition of a...
by United Families International | Feb 23, 2011 | Feminism, motherhood, UFI Blog, UN, Women's Rights
Mothers at the UN Dear Friend of the Family: The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) begins today in New York and United Families International has four representatives attending: Jean Bentley, Anne Stewart, Margy Barker and Marcia Barlow. To give you a flavor of...
by United Families International | Jan 22, 2011 | Abortion, motherhood, Sanctity of Life, UFI Blog
Today, January 22, marks the 38th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that every woman had a constitutional right to have an abortion, some 55 million pre-born children have been ripped from their mother’s womb and discarded. ...