by United Families International | Jan 26, 2012 | motherhood, UFI Blog
Ann Bailey Pregnancy is unethical. Bet you didn’t know that. Anna Smajdor, an ethicist at the UK’s University of East Anglia, believes that being pregnant for nine months and then delivering the child is too risky, painful and socially restrictive to subject women...
by United Families International | Jun 7, 2011 | Child Development, Family, motherhood, Parents, UFI Blog
By Allison Malnar Realization: About a year ago, as I was making my bed I had the overwhelming feeling that I was wasting time. I felt my heart constrict as I thought about my children playing in the other room and I was not in there playing with them. I felt panic...
by United Families International | Apr 7, 2011 | Child Development, Family, motherhood, Parents, UFI Blog
By Grace Sailor As a mother of four children, I have had a twenty year internal battle of balancing my personal and spiritual feelings in regards to being a mother versus how society views me as a mother. Recently a series of research studies found that women who...
by United Families International | Mar 25, 2011 | Feminism, motherhood, Parents, Polls, UFI Blog
Here’s the question: “What about mothers with children ages 0-17 being employed outside the home? “ Here was the response of UFI readers: 81 percent “Only if absolutely no other choice” 14 percent “Part-time is OK” 5 percent “Should never do it”...
by United Families International | Nov 11, 2010 | adoption, Child Development, Family, motherhood, Polls, UFI Blog
Here’s last week’s UFI Family Poll question and here is the response: What are your thoughts on a surrogate mother carrying a child for an infertile heterosexual couple? (child not conceived from the egg of the surrogate mother) 33 percent said ...