By Grace Sailor It is difficult to watch the news without hearing about another celebrity marriage failing, as is with the recent news of the unraveling of the famous Shriver-Schwarzenegger union. It is no wonder that the rising generation is more likely to live together than...
By Rachel Allison We always assume that families eating together would help strengthen family ties and raise better-adjusted kids, but specific studies have been done over the years that prove our assumptions by highlighting the benefits of time spent together at the dinner table. • Research by...
The largest federally funded study on divorced fathers found that women – not their husbands - initiate two-thirds of divorces.[i] This statistic might lead you to believe that many women are in abusive relationships necessitating divorce. A 15-year study found that less than one-third of...
Is the early sexualization of girls OK or not? Those that push their “sexual and reproductive health” policies at the UN seem to be confused. A quick perusal of some recent conference documents will show you language like this paragraph from the resolution negotiated at...
Here is the weekly poll question: “Is celebrating and cheering the death of a mass murderer like Osama Bin Laden an appropriate message to send to our children?” Here is how our readers answered: 68 percent No 32 percent Yes In the weeks following Bin Laden’s death, this topic has...
By Grace Sailor Governor Mitch Daniels of Indiana continues to hold the banner high in support of pro-family legislation as he signed a bill on Tuesday that tightens abortion rules, cuts $2 million dollars to Planned Parenthood which accounts for a large portion of Planned Parenthood’s...
By Rachel Allison According to Drs. Charles and Elizabeth Schmitz, their thirty years of marriage research has shown that the best marriages worldwide use specific words and phrases as they talk about their relationship with each other. Here are the words and phrases commonly used by happily...
Did great-great-grandma have a robust sex life prior to marriage? According to some academics, she did. There are many academics and those who wish to influence public policy who insist that high rates of pre-marital sex, cohabitation and children born out-of-wedlock is not something new...
by Ann Bailey "The only way to end abortion is to change popular culture," insists my astute 20-year-old daughter. My question is "How exactly do you do that?" You have to be "hip and cool" to impact popular culture - which I have to say is...
Here’s the question: “If it is determined that Coca Cola was involved in pressuring the law firm King and Spaulding to decline to defend DOMA, would you participate in a boycott?” Here’s what UFI readers had to say: 96 Percent Yes 2 Percent No 2 Percent Not sure Looks like UFI...
If I had my child to raise all over again, I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later. I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less. I would do less correcting and more connecting. I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes. I'd take more hikes...
Ann Bailey “When it comes to raising children, four hands are better than two – and it doesn’t matter who’s at the end of the hands,” insisted the UN “expert.” It was at a meeting I attended in back in February and I still bristle when...
By Rachel Allison “We parents are the first and most important teachers of our children and teens. We must accept this fact as a personal challenge to our creative nature and to our intent. Our children will thrive in direct proportion to how reliably they can...
A warm British-accented voice intones: "A funeral took place today of an elderly couple who decided to undergo euthanasia because they couldn't imagine a life without the other...
Here’s the question: “Do you believe the statement “women earn only 77 percent of what men earn for equal work?” Here is how UFI readers responded: 15 percent Yes, and things need to change! 19 percent Yes, but there’s more to this story. 63 percent No, that’s baloney! 3 percent Don’t...
By Rachel Allison As a mother of five children I look back and recognize that through their formative years there are things that we did right, and there are things that we did wrong. One thing that we did right? We role-played with our children. When our...
By Grace Sailor "Choose Your Love, Love Your Choice” a simple but profound statement regarding marriage. It also brings to mind a guest speaker in my diversity social work class while I was earning a master’s degree. The guest speaker was born and raised in India...
This month Oklahoma became the fourth state in the U.S. to put in place the “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.” Oklahoma joins Nebraska, Kansas, and Idaho in protecting an unborn child who is capable of feeling pain from abortion- when an unborn child reaches the...
Here’s the question: “Should the organ transplant community publicly refuse organs from suicides?“ Here is the UFI reader response: 62 percent “No” 38 percent “Yes” 0 percent “Unsure” We found this question was difficult to get our brain around. There are so many people in need of organ transplants,...
Inside the UN: The Commission on Population and Development 2011 "The West is Obsessed with Sex" read the bold caption on a flyer handed out to UN delegates by our pro-family coalition back in 2000. As this year's Commission on Population and Development (CPD) unfolded, the...
By Carol Soelberg, President of UFI United Families received many gratifying comments from our readers recently when we spelled out ways citizens can be involved in making a difference in the sex education curriculum in their schools. This affirmed my belief that people are not really...
By Rachel Allison “I am totally convinced that once a woman has borne a child, she owes that child herself more than anything else in the first five years of his life… I fear that raising emotion-starved and love-starved children can produce calloused, robotized adults—people who follow...
How many homosexual men and women are there in the U.S.? For decades, the public has been led to believe that ten percent of the population view themselves as homosexual. The ten percent number comes from an analysis of interviews conducted from 1938 to 1948...
Here’s the question: “Do you believe that it is crucial that developing countries reduce their population? Here is the UFI reader response: 91 percent No 6 percent Yes 3 percent Unsure United Families International representatives are currently attending the UN Commission on Population and Development (CPD). The mantra...
By Carol Soelberg In cities and counties across the country we are hearing of efforts being made to implement domestic partnership registries as a means to “satisfy the needs” of homosexual couples who can not be legally married. While these communities are committed to families and...
