by United Families International | Mar 7, 2011 | Child Development, motherhood, Myth Buster, Schools, UFI Blog
While enrollment of children in pre-schools and kindergarten is for the most part optional, “early learning” advocates and the daycare lobbyists continue in their efforts to make preschool mandatory. These folks insist that pre-k programs promote “school readiness”...
by United Families International | Feb 3, 2011 | Polls, Schools, UFI Blog
Here’s this week’s Family Poll Question: Should schools implement anti-bullying policies that lists specific categories/groups for special protection or a zero-tolerance anti-bullying policy that covers all students equally? Here is the response of our UFI...
by United Families International | Jan 17, 2011 | Birth Rate, Cohabitation, Marriage, Myth Buster, Schools, UFI Blog
We regularly read of the need for more sex education in our schools in an effort to avoid teen pregnancy. Shows like Teen Mom and 16 and Pregnant garner lots of attention and add to the perception that the biggest problem with out-wedlock-child bearing can be found...
by United Families International | Jan 13, 2011 | Parents, Religious Freedom, Schools, UFI Blog
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...
by United Families International | Dec 3, 2010 | Education, Same-Sex Attraction, Schools, UFI Blog
Keeping gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered (GLBT) safe and able “to avoid harassment” is the reason given for implementing an opposite-sex roommate situation at University of Arizona. They’re calling it “gender neutral”...
by United Families International | Nov 22, 2010 | Parental Rights, Religious Freedom, Same-Sex Attraction, Schools, UFI Blog
An economics teacher wears a purple t-shirt to class to show his support for homosexual students, badgers a student for wearing a belt buckle that the teacher didn’t agree with, and then throws another student out of class because the student states that he disagrees...