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UFI Special Alert – UN AIDS Report
UFI Special Alert - UN AIDS Report Special Report - Urgent! photo_orphaned_grave.jpg FACT: "As of December 2007, an estimated 33.2 million people worldwide were living with HIV. In 2007, an estimated 2.5 million people were newly infected." Many of them helpless...
Dad, You Give Your Children a 50 Percent Better Chance of Getting A’s In School and Staying Out of Jail
Dad, You Give Your Children a 50 Percent Better Chance of Getting A's In School and Staying Out of Jail "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." --17th Century English Proverb Dear Friend of the Family, Today, I've got a special message just for dads...Carol...
Judges Rule Against Stay and the Democratic Process
Judges Rule Against Stay and the Democratic Process June 6, 2008 Dear Friend of the Family, The arrogance expressed yesterday by the California Supreme Court, which refused to stay its May 15 legalization of same-sex “marriage,” should come as no surprise. The court’s...
Marriage Protection Amendment Would Solve the Problem of Judicial Activism
Marriage Protection Amendment Would Solve the Problem of Judicial Activism May 29 , 2008 Dear Friend of the Family,Carol Soleberg, President of UFI We have analyzed the recent 172-page decision by the California Supreme Court which ruled marriage as we know it...
California Supreme Court Decision will Result in Unintended Consequences
California Supreme Court Decision will Result in Unintended Consequences May 19, 2008 The State of California is known for its earthquakes, and Thursday’s re-definition of marriage by the California Supreme Court delivereda social “jolt” on the magnitude of 8.0. A...
Stay Alive Attracts Church Involvement to Teach Values to Children in Africa
Stay Alive Attracts Church Involvement to Teach Values to Children in Africa May 5, 2008 Dear Friend of the Family,Carol Soleberg, President of UFI Stay Alive, the HIV-AIDS prevention program of United Families International, has changed the lives of children and...
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After the Wedding, #marriageadvice
by Erin Weist I attended the wedding reception of my cousin’s daughter over the weekend. She was a glowing bride, he was an ecstatic groom, everything was perfect. It was about a dozen years ago when I enjoyed my wedding day. Since then my husband and I have...
What Are the Great Moral Issues of Our Time?
by Christie Masters Senator Bernie Sanders has undergirded his presidential campaign with the declaration that “Income inequality is the great moral issue of our time...” Other political leaders also push free health care, free education and gender equality as the...
Socialism – The Big Lie
by Rebecca Mallory It’s not often that a UFI reader will ask me to write about a particular subject. I got a phone call from someone a few days ago who lamented that he was “trying to have an open mind about socialism but after doing some research, just felt like it...
Health and Safety For Abortion Too
by Diane Robertson On March 2nd, the United States Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a 2013 Texas law requiring abortion clinics to maintain basic health and safety standards, and abortionists to maintain admitting privileges to nearby hospitals. The law also...
Tech-Tethered–Held captive by technology?
by Jackie Bowles A few weeks ago I attended a family reunion. Getting everyone together is very hard to accomplish. As the week progressed, it was interesting to see the interactions between various family members or should I say a lack of interaction. Most were...
Resolution No. ## (Template for a Resolution to define Pornography as a “Public Health Crisis”)
Recognizing and finding that pornography is a public health hazard leading to a broad spectrum of individual and public health impacts and societal harms. Pornography is creating a public health crisis and therefore its harms are beyond the capability of the...