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Sex Selective Abortion: Where Have All the Girls Gone?
Hello Friends, In much of the world, women outnumber men in terms of population. This is usually attributable to greater life expectancy among women. War, disease and substance abuse impact males more than females and affect the ratios between men and women, with...
UN Women – Redefining Gender and Erasing Women
Hello Friends, I suppose we should get over being shocked, but just when you think you’ve seen, and heard, it all, the powers that be at the UN say something that leaves you just dumbfounded. This time around it was the director of UN Women that had us shaking our...
Family: The Key to Thriving Communities and Economies
Hello Friends, One of the best presentations at a recent UN event about families that I attended was given by Joseph Price, an economics professor at Brigham Young University. His presentation was titled “Household Family Structure and the Macroeconomic Welfare of...
Contempt is Keeping Us from Becoming ‘a More Perfect Union’
Many years ago, Neal A. Maxwell, who had served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, likened the spread of sin to spilled milk. He said, “Young parents know how a mere half cup of spilled milk seems to...
Same-sex Politics and the Lie of “Inclusivity”
Hello Friends, Where would our world be without dissenters – those individuals who are willing to stick their necks out (sometimes literally) for what they believe? Well, the United States would be a part of the British Commonwealth, for one. We learn of and honor the...
To Change the Future, Children Need History
Hello Friends, When I was young, my grandmothers told me stories about my family – about my grandfather who died before I was born who made his living as a professional musician and my great-grandfather who was a teacher and school administrator in the Hawaiian...
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Bella Thorne Became Bella Porn? A Research Response to an ex-Disney Princess
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Joey Sheppard Bell Thorne hit stardom with preteens and young teenagers alike when she starred in the record-breaking 2010 Disney TV show Shake...
Lessons from Dumbledore: Standing Up to Anti-Science Activism
By Tori Black In the first of the Harry Potter books, The Sorcerer’s Stone, the headmaster, Dumbledore, shares this bit of wisdom: “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” JK Rowling, the author of the...
Bethlehem and the Gift of the Family
Contributed by Tori Black Every December for the last three years, I have participated in a community event in San Diego celebrating the season in inspired word and song. Every year is a witness of hearts and lives changed just by spending an hour and a half listening...
The Equal Rights Amendment – Not Dead and Still Dangerous
This image is from the Florida Memory Project hosted at the State Archive of Florida and is released to the public domain in the United States under the terms of Section 257.35(6), Florida Statutes. By Tori Black On her first day of work, Amelia Bedelia, the...
Thanksgiving Food for Thought
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...
Preparing Children to Guard Their Hearts and Minds
By Eleah Boyd According to statista.com, there are somewhere between 500,000 and one million newly published book titles every year in the United States. With the cost-effectiveness of small print runs and digital book publishing, self-publishing is easier than ever....
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