Child Development

28 Jul

Posted at 09:07h in Abstinence, Birth Rate, Child Development, Choice, Cohabitation, Families, father, Marriage, motherhood, Sexual Freedom, The Family, UFI Blog, Values by
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by Carol Soelberg It was all over the news last week: “U.S. poverty heads toward highest level in 50 years.” Other countries around the world, notably Greece and Spain, continue to struggle with insolvency and surging rates of poverty. Economists and other experts point to all sorts of reasons:...

24 Jul

Posted at 09:19h in Abortion, Abstinence, Child Development, Choice, Courts, date rape, Education, Families, Feminism, Free Speech, Freedom, Human Rights, motherhood, Same-Sex Marriage, Sanctity of Life, Sexual Freedom, Single Mothers, Supreme Court, Transgender, UFI Blog, Values, Women's Rights by
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by Erin Weist While a multitude of ills befall our world on a regular basis, recently very few things have aroused such passions on an international scale than the issues surrounding marriage & family. Not far behind, and related by nature, is the controversy of abortion....

22 Jul

Posted at 06:29h in Child Abuse, Child Development, Choice, Diane Robertson, Domestic Violence, Families, Free Speech, Freedom, Media, Parenting, UFI Blog, Values, Violence by
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by Diane Robertson A restaurant owner in Portland, Maine has gotten national attention and sparked a debate after yelling at a screaming 21 month old baby girl in her restaurant and then ranting about it on Facebook. The owner, Darla Neugebauer, asked the customers to leave, and...

15 Jul

Posted at 08:49h in Abortion, Bioethics, Child Abuse, Child Development, Choice, Diane Robertson, Families, Feminism, Freedom, Gender, Gender Identity, Government, Health Care, Homosexuality, Human Rights, Parental Rights, Physician Assisted Suicide, Research, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Orientation, Transgender, UFI Blog, Values by
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by Diane Robertson Policy makers in the state of Oregon must love irony. A new health policy allows teens as young as 15 to obtain hormone suppression supplements and surgery to alter their gender without parental permission. The state will even subsidize the cost for the...

13 Jul

Posted at 15:45h in Abstinence, Child Development, Choice, Education, Families, Free Speech, Freedom, Gender, Gender Identity, Government, Homosexuality, Human Rights, Parental Rights, Schools, Sex Education, Sexual Freedom, Sexual Orientation, The Family, Transgender, UFI Blog, Values, Violence by
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by Rebecca Mallory Remember back in the olden days when you were punished for doing something wrong in school? Remember when the really bad guys were suspended for fighting, stealing or cheating? Remember when you could opt out of Sex Ed if you felt uncomfortable? Well,...

10 Jul

Posted at 11:22h in Child Development, Choice, Courts, Democracy, Families, father, Free Speech, Freedom, Gender, Government, Human Rights, Marriage, motherhood, Parental Rights, Parenting, Religion, Religious Freedom, Same-Sex Marriage, Supreme Court, The Family, UFI Blog, Values by
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by Erin Weist The media stories that have been overwhelming my news feeds lately have dealt with the transition of the traditional family. They have covered the current dogma of the fluidity of gender, the worldly view of traditional parental roles that are seen as archaic, the...

07 Jul

Posted at 13:21h in Abstinence, Child Development, Choice, Cohabitation, Divorce, Families, Feminism, Free Speech, Freedom, Government, Health Care, Marriage, Media, Meet UFI, Parenting, Research, Sexual Freedom, Single Mothers, The Family, UFI Blog, Values by
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"Marriage is dead,”. . . or, at least,  no longer necessary was the Nietzchean-like declaration of two young, female writers in Newsweek.  In an article entitled “The Case Against Marriage,” Jessica Bennett and Jesse Ellison lay-out with dismissive nonchalance, and not a small amount of...

06 Jul

Posted at 09:26h in Child Development, Choice, Families, father, Grandparents, Marriage, Media, motherhood, Parenting, The Family, UFI Blog, Values by
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by Caitlin Woolbert I know the summer is part way over, but I have a great idea for you! Make family time a priority. Seems simple enough? Wrong! Everyday life is busy. Summer life is even busier. This summer is a great time to start making family...