*We welcome several new contributors to the United Families blog. They will be addressing issues relevant to families and particularly mothers.* By Rachel Allison I will always remember the phone call I received several years ago from my older sister. She was going through several extremely difficult...
If you watch TV, movies, or any kind of pop culture media, you would assume that teenage sexual antics are here to stay and that pretty much every teen is participating. You may be surprised to learn that, although society falls far short of the...
If your marriage is unhappy and you feel like a divorce would be better for your children, you might want to think again. Studies have determined that divorces in high-conflict marriages have a neutral or beneficial effect on a child. Children from low-conflict families who...
Since 1993, January 16 has been designated as “Religious Freedom Day” in the U.S. “It was the genius of America's forefathers to protect our freedom of religion, including the freedom to practice none at all,” reads last year’s Presidential Proclamation commemorating this First Amendment right. ...
“Duh. They had to do a study to find that out? Teen girls have been the prime target for sexuality since the sixties! Finally someone notices?” was the response of a UFI reader to a listing of this new report in our UFI Weekly. Perhaps...
If you want your children to learn teamwork skills and how to get along with others, don’t put them on a sports team...
A meta-analysis of 26 previously-published studies focusing on children living with same-sex parents finds “evidence […that] suggests intergenerational transfer of sexual orientation can occur at statistically significant and substantial rates, especially for female parents or female children.” Walter Schumm, Kansas State University researcher, concluded that 28...
Married men have a lower risk of fatal stroke than single men. According to a study by Uri Goldbourt, Tel Aviv University’s Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute, the happier you are in marriage the lower your risk of stroke. Men in unhappy marriages had a 64...
Contrary to the claims of groups like Planned Parenthood and Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SEICUS), not to mention popular media, most teens are not having sex. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) puts down that myth once again...
This is a first for us at UFI--promoting a contest. Let us state at the outset that we are not connected in anyway to the sponsor nor can we vouch for the company, but this is something we believe to be important and want to...
