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The Equal Rights Amendment – Symbolism vs. Substance
Hello Friends, Virginia has ratified the Equal Rights Amendment decades after the deadline for ratification and states from both sides of the debate have filed suit in court. Virginia, Nevada and Illinois, the last three states to ratify the ERA, argue that the...
Bella Thorne Became Bella Porn? A Research Response to an ex-Disney Princess
Hello Friends, The evidence is so strong that pornography has a detrimental effect on individuals and relationships that it is almost hard to believe that there are still people who think its influence is benign, even beneficial. But that is the attitude of one-time...
Lessons from Dumbledore: Standing Up to Anti-Science Activism
Hello Friends, I have a confession. I did not especially like the Harry Potter books when they first came out. My children loved them, and as one who loves books and who wanted to instill a similar love of literature in my children, I encouraged their enthusiasm for...
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...
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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...
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...
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