by United Families International | May 5, 2014 | Child Development, Drug Use, Education, Family, Pornography, Religion, Sanctity of Life, Schools, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
Kristi Kane A year ago last April, our community was left struggling after a teenage boy in my daughter’s school (one who she knew personally and was friends with) took his life. A dark shadow cast itself on all who knew him. I found myself thinking, “His prom...
by United Families International | May 2, 2014 | Child Development, Demographic Decline, Education, Family, Family Planning, Feminism, Marriage, Media, motherhood, Myth Buster, Parents, Population Control, Schools, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
Maryn Holladay My husband subscribes to Bloomberg Businessweek. This magazine and I have a good thing going on. Like weekly clockwork: the magazine arrives, I thumb through, I focus on a fascinating article or two (or six), and a few minutes (or… longer) later, I...
by United Families International | May 1, 2014 | Constitution, Education, Family, Grandparents, Media, Parents, Research, Sovereignty, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
Rebecca Mallory No doubt you’ve heard the recent debates over capitalism. It is the American way and has been since its inception. Recently, however, many speak of capitalism in disparaging terms; that it is somehow unfair, that it promotes greed and robs the...
by United Families International | Apr 30, 2014 | Child Development, Diane Robertson, Education, Family, Research, Schools, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
Diane Robertson Many parents across the nation are wary, worried, and bemused by the new Common Core standards. An important part of Common Core is the standardized testing. To prepare students for the tests, school administrators are enforcing strict instruction for...
by United Families International | Apr 29, 2014 | Child Development, Family, Grandparents, motherhood, Parents, The Family, UFI Blog, Values
Liz Mackay It was a typical Monday morning with children to awaken and help prepare for the day, lunches to pack, laundry to oversee, vacuuming to start. As I moved forward to accomplish these needed tasks, my two youngest children kept coming up and petitioning me...
by United Families International | Apr 28, 2014 | Pornography, UFI Blog
Jennifer Luu & Jessica Madrid In today’s society, many of us have grown up hearing the parable of the Frog and the Boiling Water. So for just a moment, picture if you would, a frog placed into a pot of boiling water, the frog will hop immediately out of that pot...