by United Families International | Nov 7, 2014 | Abstinence, Birth Rate, Child Development, Cohabitation, Demographic Decline, Divorce, Education, Family, Feminism, Marriage, Parents, Population Control, Schools, Sexual Freedom, The Family, UFI Blog, Values, Women's Rights, working mothers
Mekelle Tenney Over the last 50 years the fertility rate among Americans has dropped from 3.65 to 1.89. The rate of households with one child or more under the age of 18 has also made a significant drop from 48.8% to 32.3%. In 2010 only 30% of high school girls and...
by United Families International | Nov 5, 2014 | adoption, Child Development, Diane Robertson, Education, Family, father, Gender, Marriage, motherhood, Parents, Research, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
Diane Robertson New Research being conducted on the differences between mothering and fathering has found that children need to the complimentary parenting styles from both genders. Jenet Erickson, research sociologist and author for the Deseret News, presented...
by United Families International | Nov 4, 2014 | Child Development, Education, Family, Feminism, Health Care, Marriage, motherhood, Parents, Schools, stay-at-home mom, The Family, UFI Blog, Values, Women's Rights
Nathalie Bowman Over the past few days, there has been an uproar among conservative Americans surrounding President Obama’s speech on October 31 at Rhode Island College. After he opened with a few jokes, mentioned going trick-or-treating with Michelle because his...
by United Families International | Oct 30, 2014 | Education, Free Speech, Health Care, Schools, UFI Blog
Rebecca Mallory What makes me qualified to write about Ebola? Not a thing. But, I’ve listened to the news ad nauseam. Does that count? So here’s my take. I know it’s a deadly disease that is highly contagious and that mortality rates are reported...
by United Families International | Oct 29, 2014 | Child Development, Diane Robertson, Education, Family, father, Marriage, motherhood, Parents, Religion, Research, Schools, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
Diane Robertson This is part one of a three part series on parenting. I have been reading through some new and very interesting research that is being conducted on mothering and fathering. I am going to start from a personal view as a mother of ten (amazing) children....
by United Families International | Oct 24, 2014 | Child Development, Education, Family, father, Parents, Schools, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
By Rachel Allison Several years ago my husband traveled through France where he met a family who had just recently moved ten miles out of town. This meant that the family’s two teenage daughters had to be driven to town each morning for school, and then picked up...
