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Comprehensive Sexuality and Gender Identity Education: Do You Know What Your Children Are Being Taught?
Hello Friends, As the new school year has gotten off the ground, we have spent the last few weeks focusing on the things we can do as families to help our kids have the best educational outcomes possible. We’ve also warned parents of the potential problems they could...
Same-Sex Attraction and The Truth About Change Therapy
Dr. Dovid Schwartz is an Orthodox Jew and licensed psychotherapist in Brooklyn, New York. With the help of Alliance Defending Freedom, he filed a lawsuit against the city of New York because the city had censored his speech and made it illegal for him to provide...
How Publishers and Librarians Are Pushing Gender Identity Politics on Your Children
Times change. People change. Organizations change. Not always for the better. Such is the case with Scholastic, the world’s largest publisher of children’s books, and the American Library Association, the oldest and largest library association in the world. Both...
The Biggest Predictor of Student Success? Home and Family
There is a lot that we do as parents to provide our children the best education possible. We may choose the home we live in based on school districts and neighborhoods and associated schools. We may enroll our children in charter or private schools. We may have our...
Family-friendly Corporate Culture – A Win for All
As you read this, we are in the midst of the United Nations Civil Society Conference in Salt Lake City. Our road to this conference was a little rocky. When I announced the conference coming to Salt Lake City, I admitted that, even though the conference was about...
Don’t believe what you hear — money isn’t the leading cause of divorce
The financial news this week got a lot of people nervous. That’s understandable. The last economic downturn was painful. My husband is in the airline industry which was badly affected starting with 9/11. We call it the “lost decade.” For a workforce that is already...
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Harvard Magazine’s Misguided Attack on Homeschooling
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Tori Black It was my husband’s work schedule that proved to be the last straw. He had just started work as a pilot at a major airline, and, in...
One Blessing of Coronavirus Quarantine: Enforced Family Time
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...
Sacrificing the Wellbeing of Children: New York’s Legalization of Commercial Surrogacy
By Katy Faust on behalf of United Families International Last year New York had a heated debate about overturning their decades-long ban on surrogacy enacted after the “Baby M” case where a surrogate did what mothers tend to do; bond with her baby and refuse to give...
Families and Media: You Are What You Eat
by Sarah Justensen When individuals consistently eat nutritious foods, they will promote their own health and wellness. Alternatively, when people have a diet consisting of primarily junk food, they will eventually find themselves dealing with health problems. As...
Emerging from the Crucible of the Coronavirus as a Stronger Family
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...
How Extended Family Builds Resiliency
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Sign up for the latest from United Families International here. Contributed by Tori Black With news of an imminent coronavirus pandemic filling the airwaves and...