by United Families International | Jan 8, 2014 | Family, Media, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
Kristi Kane This past September, I paid one of my friends (a professional simplifier), to help me muck out and organize the mess that was in my basement. It took days! When we finished, I had donated over two dozen bags of various sundries to the good will, and thrown...
by United Families International | Jan 7, 2014 | Child Development, Family, father, motherhood, Parents, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
Tiffany Dowell In our fast-paced, ambitious world, many of us are working hard, striving to become better people and to give life to our worthy goals and aspirations. The simplest things can shape us into what we will become and cultivate the kind of heart where the...
by United Families International | Dec 31, 2013 | Child Development, Family, motherhood, Parents, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
How many of us can recall a time when our naive childhood or adolescent behavior caused a hurtful situation for our parents? Since human errors are part of childhood, all of us have the opportunity, at one point or another, to choose to embrace the depth of love that...
by United Families International | Dec 27, 2013 | Abstinence, Child Development, Education, Family, Free Speech, Gender, Grandparents, Marriage, motherhood, Parents, Religion, Religious Freedom, Same-Sex Attraction, Same-Sex Marriage, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
Tara Holladay It was just another day. My daughter was at preschool, my mother was watching my toddler son, and I was sitting in a clean, generic waiting room, hoping that when it was my turn in the dentist chair I wouldn’t be hearing any expensive news. A mother...
by United Families International | Dec 24, 2013 | Child Development, Family, father, Parents, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
Casey Reeve shares how his father helped to instill in him the true meaning of Christmas. Every Christmas Eve, we would lie under the Christmas tree, listening intently to my father. He would get down next to us and gaze up at the lights on the tree, capped off by the...
by United Families International | Dec 20, 2013 | Abortion, Family, father, Grandparents, motherhood, Parents, Sanctity of Life, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
Rachel Allison I don’t know if UFI readers remember my writing about a group of women who, experiencing the heartache caused by their own abortions, have dedicated themselves to educating, influencing and hopefully inspiring others to choose life. One of these good...