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24 Apr Is Instagram Ruining Your Marriage?

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By Miriam Merrill Your Instagram account may be ruining your marriage. With the number of active monthly users reaching 1 billion, Instagram is more popular than ever. While there are millions of users in every age category, approximately 64% of users are unsurprisingly between 18-34. It seems...

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17 Apr Surrogacy: Babies on Demand and Motherhood in Pieces

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United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Camille Williams Rachel’s cry of longing, envy and despair, “Give me children else I die” (Genesis 30:1) is echoed in our day by infertile couples, by same-sex couples, and by...

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27 Mar Distracted Parenting

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By Ashley Corbaley We all have seen it: a mom or dad busily scrolling or texting away on their cell phone on the park bench while their children are playing on the playground. Maybe from time to time we are even guilty of it ourselves. A few...

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30 Jan Raising Kids in the Technological Age

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By Erin Weist We live in a new time.  The generation raising children now is doing something absolutely new that no one in the history of the entire world has done before:  They are raising children with unprecedented amount of information streaming into their homes at...

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19 Jun Off the Grid

Posted at 16:37h in Marriage and Family, Media, Technology by UFI Blog 0 Comments

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by Alannah Hurley Recently, I did what some would call unfathomable, what some wish they could do, and what some have already done – I quit social media. At first it was hard not having that constant entertainment at my fingertips, but it also felt as...

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19 Dec The Good News About Electronic Devices

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by Tashica Jacobson Electronic devices are everywhere today. Many families own a TV, computer, laptop, and tablet, with each member also having a personal phone. A 2015 survey found that 90% of households in the United States have three or more devices that connect to the...

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14 Jul Let the Pokémon GO Craze Strengthen Your Family

Posted at 16:16h in Families, Marriage and Family, Media, Technology, The Family, Uncategorized, Values by UFI Blog 0 Comments

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By Candice LeSueur GET UP, GET OUT, AND EXPLORE! This is the message the new Pokémon GO app is promoting, emphasizing that you “get on your feet and step outside to...

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24 May Monkey see, Monkey do

Posted at 07:52h in Abstinence, Child Development, Choice, Cohabitation, Domestic Violence, Education, Families, Free Speech, Media, Parental Rights, Parenting, Research, Sexual Freedom, Technology, Values, Violence by United Families International 0 Comments

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Sexual content and violence on TV and the potential effect it has on our kids.  by Cinthia Jahnsen We all have been there. The awkward moment where we feel that what we are watching on television, or at the movies is not appropriate for our kids. (OrUS for...

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21 Apr SEX sells– are YOU buying?

Posted at 10:46h in Abstinence, Child Development, Choice, Cohabitation, Divorce, Education, Families, Marriage, Media, Parental Rights, Parenting, Planned Parenthood, Pornography, Schools, Sex Education, Sexual Freedom, Technology, Values by United Families International 0 Comments

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by Mekelle Tenney What happened to your standards America? What happened to your morality? I am both amazed and disgusted at our entertainment today. Amazed that we can’t find anything other than sex to write and joke about and disgusted that we are entertained by it....

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06 Apr Put Your Phone Down: How Technology Negatively Impacts Face-to-Face Communication

Posted at 08:47h in Families, Marriage, Media, Parenting, Research, Technology, The Family, Values by United Families International 0 Comments

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By:  Miriam Merrill and Susan Liufau Jane’s phone alerted her to a new message in her email inbox.  She picked it up off the white linen tablecloth and clicked a few buttons not noticing the dejected look on her husband’s face.  After checking the message, Jane...

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