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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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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...
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