by United Families International | May 12, 2014 | Child Development, Family, Free Speech, Gender, Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, UFI Blog, Values
Maddi Gillel There are two stories I would like to tell you about: one is about my 7 year old grandson, and the other is about me when I was in the 3rd grade. My grandson, James, likes to walk off moping and saying “Everybody hates me.” I know the song that has this...
by United Families International | May 2, 2014 | Child Development, Demographic Decline, Education, Family, Family Planning, Feminism, Marriage, Media, motherhood, Myth Buster, Parents, Population Control, Schools, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
Maryn Holladay My husband subscribes to Bloomberg Businessweek. This magazine and I have a good thing going on. Like weekly clockwork: the magazine arrives, I thumb through, I focus on a fascinating article or two (or six), and a few minutes (or… longer) later, I...
by United Families International | Apr 23, 2014 | Birth Rate, Child Development, Diane Robertson, Divorce, Education, Family, Family Planning, father, Marriage, Media, motherhood, Parents, UFI Blog
Diane Robertson As a stay at home mom of 9 children, I get many people asking me the question, “How do you do it?” My answer is simple. I do not do it alone. I am a stay at home mom of many children only because I am married and my husband and I have chosen to bear...
by United Families International | Apr 17, 2014 | Birth Rate, Child Development, Cohabitation, Family, father, Gender, Health Care, Marriage, motherhood, Parents, Same-Sex Attraction, Same-Sex Marriage, Sanctity of Life, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
Elise Ellsworth Next week my husband and I will celebrate fifteen years of marriage together. Our marriage has weathered the births of seven children, four college degrees, eleven moves (four of them cross-country), job losses, being hit by a tornado, too many...
by United Families International | Apr 11, 2014 | Constitution, Environmentalism, Family, Free Speech, Proposition 8, Religious Freedom, Same-Sex Marriage, Sovereignty, Supreme Court, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
Maddi Gillel On a fairly regular basis, we hear the phrase “we’re losing our freedoms.” Do we understand what that means? Do our eyes glaze over? Do we ask ourselves ‘okay, so what do we do about it’? Let me give you just a few examples of what’s going on right now...
by United Families International | Apr 9, 2014 | Civil Unions, Constitution, Diane Robertson, Free Speech, Marriage, Non-Discrimination, Proposition 8, Religion, Religious Freedom, Same-Sex Attraction, Same-Sex Marriage, Sexual Orientation, Supreme Court, UFI Blog, Values
The role of the Supreme Court in checks and balances is to stop acts of the President, laws of Congress or of states that break a rule in the Constitution. One rule of the constitution is found in the first amendment of the Bill of Rights which states, “Congress shall...
