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Bethlehem and the Gift of the Family
Hello Friends, I will be frank. We need your help. Every year UFI brings university students with us to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). We and their faculty advisors spend weeks preparing them to share their knowledge that the family is...
The Equal Rights Amendment – Not Dead and Still Dangerous
Hello Friends, The issue that spurred the creation of United Families International is back in the news because the legislature in the state of Virginia has flipped and is poised to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. The passage of the proposed amendment is a matter of...
Preparing Children to Guard Their Hearts and Minds
Hello Friends, Have you ever had a child come home with an assignment that she just couldn’t bring herself to read? Not because she didn’t want to do the work, but because the book selection was just so full of objectionable material, it made her eyes burn? Schools...
Injuring the Innocent: The Pernicious Effect of Pornography on Home and Society
In 1624, John Donne, metaphysical poet and cleric in the Church of England, wrote: No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory...
Why Shame a Mother for Wanting to be a Mother?
Hello Friends, I can’t tell you the number of women I know who, while pregnant, said they intend to return to work as soon as their maternity leave is over, and then found it far more difficult to leave their infant in another’s care than they thought it would be....
The Sexual Ideologies Competing for the Hearts of Your Children
Hello Friends, Do you ever wonder “how did we get here?” I do. All. The. Time. Many people don’t realize the outsized influence just one person can have on society. Alfred Kinsey was one of those people. Until fairly recently, the public did not know both how much...
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A Texas Victory for Parents and Children We Can All Celebrate
Contributed by Katy Faust on behalf of United Families International United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. In the midst of a global pandemic, widespread Black Lives Matter protests, and general...
Preserving Freedom and Women’s Sports
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Kari McEvoy Sports in the United States of America has brought opportunity and prosperity to many of its citizens. Women and girls, in...
Bare Branches: The Persistent Consequences of China’s One-Child Policy
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Marie Walker In response to an article about China’s involuntary bachelors, often referred to as guanggun or “bare branches” because they fail to...
Supreme Court Co-opts Legislative Power and Redefines Womanhood
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Camille Williams On Monday, June 15, 2020, in the 6-3 ruling Bostock v. Clayton County, the United States Supreme Court abandoned standard...
Grief in the Time of Quarantine
Contributed by Marie Walker During the COVID 19 pandemic, many people are surprised by a vast array of emotion, and by their body’s physical reactions to stress. Part of the reason for the severity of many people’s reactions is that they are dealing with several forms...
Polyamory and the Domino Effect
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Kari McEvoy In 2013 Hans van Leeuwen of Leiden University set out to find just how powerful a domino chain reaction could be. Through a...