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 | Jul 8, 2011 | Family, Parents, UFI Blog
Fifteen children, thirteen children, eight children… big families! People differ in their response to families of this size and United Families International received not a small amount of “mail” on the subject when we sent our our most recent...
by United Families International | Jul 7, 2011 | Free Speech, Parental Rights, Polls, Pornography, UFI Blog
Here’s the question we asked UFI readers: “Do you agree with the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that minors, as a part of free speech, have a constitutional right to purchase video games – even if they are violent, pornographic, and sadistic?” Here is how our...
by United Families International | Jul 6, 2011 | Divorce, UFI Blog
Has divorce lost its groove? The New York Times believes it has. The stigma, that a decades ago was associated with divorce, seems to be returning. The NY Times article first offers up anecdotal evidence from elite New York couples with perfect careers and...
by United Families International | Jul 5, 2011 | Family, Parents, UFI Blog
By Rachel Allison Several years ago one of our sons was going through a difficult stage that stretched our patience and parenting skills. Our son was sixteen and determined to have his freedom and his way. He was beginning to understand the art of manipulation and...