by UFI Blog | Apr 21, 2020 | Family, Parents, The Family, Values
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. By Jenet Erickson on behalf of United Families International I’ll never forget sitting amid a group of family scholars, community leaders and parents and...
by UFI Blog | Mar 31, 2020 | Family, The Family, Values
Contributed by Tori Black Four weeks ago, I was skiing* down a hillside when my phone started dinging from multiple texts. The United Nations event that United Families International attends every year, and to which we bring university students eager to strengthen and...
by UFI Blog | Nov 27, 2019 | Education, Family, Schools, UFI Blog, Values
By Tori Black Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays: a day to gather with those we love and focus on all that we have to be grateful for. It also tends to feel a little squeezed though: the four-day break that separates the costumes and candy of...
by UFI Blog | Oct 3, 2018 | Pedophilia, Pornography, Prostitution, UFI Blog, Values, Violence
By Elizabeth Warner Cover image via National Center on Sexual Exploitation As a recent resident of Texas, I was appalled to hear about the proposed sex robot, or sexbot, brothel opening in Houston, Texas just a couple hours away from my home. While Houston’s...
by UFI Blog | Jun 29, 2018 | Family, Free Speech, Values
By Miriam Merrill In the self-centered world in which we live it is easy to forget that when we raise our voice with others amazing things can happen. We will often see posts on social media offering similar political opinions and we automatically assume that this...
by UFI Blog | Mar 9, 2018 | Parental Rights, Parents, UFI, UN, Values
Some people have your back When it comes to protecting the integrity of the family and traditional values, one entity at the United Nations stands out, and that is the Holy See. “Holy See” comes from the Latin Sancta Sedes, which means “Holy Chair” and refers to the...