The Longevity Project, released last year, gives some interesting insights into what is involved in living a long and healthy life. Needless to say, stable families and marriage was addressed. But one distressing finding did emerge. What is the single strongest social predictor of early...
Here’s the question we asked UFI readers: “What do you think of “fear of divorce” as an excuse/reason to not marry?” Here’s how UFI readers responded: 13 Percent Rational and valid feeling 62 Percent Ridiculous and weak 25 Percent Just a sign of the times Want to start a rousing conversation? ...
Danny Quinney I hate to brag, but I’m probably the stupidest person I know. Want an example of my dumbery? Take women for instance. To me, women are like cellos. I don’t know anything about them either. How did I learn so much about opposite sex? ...
With the relentless onslaught by popular culture and politics against the traditional family, it can be a difficult task to narrow it down to just one thing that we at United Families International can say is the worst development of the year 2011. But that...
Rachel Allison Do you remember the term “sunshine soldier and summer patriot?” The term was found in Thomas Paine’s series of pamphlets published during the American Revolution. He wrote them because the colonists needed hope...
We asked UFI readers the following question: “Is the societal shift toward women as the primary wage earner and men as “house husbands” a good thing or a bad thing?” Here is their response: 3 Percent “Good Thing” 89 Percent “Bad Thing” 8 Percent “Doesn’t Matter” The societal shift towards men...
Ann Bailey If Cancun is all excited about courting same-sex marriages, that makes it easier to choose another destination for my next vacation. The media has been abuzz recently about the fact that a loop-hole in the local civil code allows same-sex marriages to take place...
Ann Bailey If you’re “pro-choice” (hate that phrase) and you can’t bring yourself to acknowledge that the unborn child is INDEED a child, you can make all sorts of excuses for your behavior or your predicament. In a recent Salon article, “Why women have Second Trimester...
by Rachel Allison Aren’t we all motivated by the turning of the calendar? December thirty first of each year not only causes many of us to turn our thoughts to the past twelve months, but also to face the next twelve months with hope and resolution...
Here’s the question we asked UFI readers: Should a church have the right to fire an employee who doesn’t abide by the church’s clearly stated standards of conduct? Here’s how readers responded: 100 Percent “Yes” 0 Percent “No” Looks like there’s pretty strong agreement that churches do not have to...
Rose Marie Murray Every year my children predictably ask, “What do you want for Christmas?” My predictable answer? “World peace!” With heavy sighs, they prod again. But that’s what I really want, world peace. Doesn’t everybody? Now that my children are young adults I have a...
Danny Quinney If you’re anything like me, and I know I am, you love Christmas. It’s that magical time of the year where you get to go around using words like “Tis”, and “Twas”. I especially love chasing my wife around with mistletoe. Up until today,...
Rachel Allison I don’t know if our UFI readers remember my writing about a group of women who, experiencing the heartache caused by their own abortions, have dedicated themselves to educating, influencing and hopefully inspiring others to choose life. I heard from one of these women this...
Ann Bailey Sitting there in the dentist’s office, the Reader’s Digest cover caught my attention. Smartly-dressed Michelle Obama grinned at me from the cover and the headline read: “Michelle Obama’s Family Values.” But it was the quote from her that really got me going: “Everything we...
From the Desk of Carol Soelberg While this season of year typically celebrates the life of a new born in Bethlehem, we cannot ignore the ongoing threat to new life today in the form of abortion. In this week's alert, our Life Issues expert, Melissa Anderson,...
Here’s the questions we asked readers: “Would you use a dressing room that was open to transgender individuals?” Here’s how readers responded: 1 Percent Yes” (answer by female) 63 Percent “No” (answer by female) 1 Percent “Yes” (answer by male) 35...
Ann Bailey “Some of the most important learning we ever do happens before we are born, while we are still in the womb,” states Annie Murphy Paul, author of "Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives. As she tells of remarkable...
Rachel Allison Yesterday while visiting with an old friend she started relating the differences between her home which always includes much talking and laughter and chaos; compared with her son-in-law’s family who is very quiet. His family members are found gathering in separate rooms visiting, playing...
Danny Quinney There are two things I have learned in my adulthood contrary to the brainwashing my mother inflicted on me. The first is I am not a little teapot. The second, I no longer consider myself as “special;” as a mature adult I prefer term...
Here’s the question we asked readers: “Should Child Protective Services be allowed to remove morbidly obese children from their homes?” Here’s how readers responded: 10 Percent Yes 90 Percent No Are the parents of morbidly obese children not properly taking care of their child? That is the question. This would...
We like to give attention to good information - even if it comes from a source that is not an ally in the pro-family effort. Worldwatch Institute is an environmental group that is a leader in promoting population control and regularly takes what we would...
By Kelli Houghton The warning, “take caution – high wind advisory” posted this past week in some of the western states was not an exaggeration. My neighborhood felt the force of the high winds that reached up to 97 mph. Most homes were damaged, electricity was...
The Health and Human Services (HHS) Department has overruled a decision by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make the morning-after pill available to kids without a prescription. This controversial abortafacient drug, also known as Plan B, will not be sold directly off the...
by Rachel Allison Nick Shulz, November 30, LA Times Op Ed piece should have been delivered to each of the homes and tents of the Occupy Wall Street supporters. He points out that there is, in fact, inequality in incomes, AND that incomes have grown more unequal....
Ann Bailey Feminists continue to insist that feminism and the sexual revolution have been a boon to women; freeing them to participate in sexual relations in a way that, only until the last few decades, was the domain of men. So, does the modern woman share...
