by United Families International | Jul 19, 2011 | Family, motherhood, Parents, UFI Blog
By Rachel Allison Mothers who still have children in the home, this is for you. You may think that the laundry bins will always overflow, but they won’t. You may think that stumbling on an abandoned toy or tennis shoe will forever be a daily experience, but those...
by United Families International | Jul 12, 2011 | Family, motherhood, Parents, UFI Blog
By Rachel Allison This past week I had the opportunity to spend five days in a remote mountain cabin with two brothers, a sister, and my mother. There was no electricity, so we didn’t have television, telephone coverage, or the Internet. We worked together on cabin...
by United Families International | Jul 11, 2011 | Feminism, motherhood, UFI Blog
The claim that mothers who work full-time outside the home do so out of economic necessity finds little support from evidence showing that the percentage of mothers in the labor force is greatest among the wives of top-earning males. It also flies in the face of a...
by United Families International | Jun 24, 2011 | motherhood, Polls, Sanctity of Life, Stem Cells, UFI Blog
Here’s the question we asked our UFI readers: “Are you supportive of invitro fertilization (IVF) technology for helping infertile couples become pregnant knowing that it often involves the destruction of human embryos?” Here is how our readers responded: 53...
by United Families International | Jun 15, 2011 | father, motherhood, Parents, UFI Blog
By Rachel Allison Parents never retire. Even though our children are adults they are never far from our thoughts, and even now we look for positive ways to influence them. My husband and I read the following article together and realized that we could improve our...
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...