by United Families International | Sep 20, 2013 | Drug Use, Education, Marriage, UFI Blog
Maddie Gillel When we were teenagers, and even younger, my brothers and sisters, neighbors and friends would go outside our small town in the winter and ice skate on ponds and small rivers. We did this often enough that we knew how to tell by looking at ice whether...
by United Families International | Sep 17, 2013 | Divorce, Marriage, Parents, UFI Blog
Kristi Kane Last week, one of my daughters told me for the tenth (it could be more), time that she never plans on getting married. When I ask her why, she tells me that her generation does not understand how to love or trust or how to make a marriage work. I pointed...
by United Families International | Sep 16, 2013 | Marriage, Media, Pornography, UFI Blog
Sarah Owen So much of our culture has been revolutionized by the spread of cell phone and on-line technology. Most of us can’t imagine our lives without it. Despite the benefits that can come through technology, it also facilitates a major problem:...
by United Families International | Sep 16, 2013 | Abortion, UFI Blog
“The care of human life and not its destruction … is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson by Melissa Anderson We are a government formed to legislate the collective moral conscienceness into laws to govern the...
by United Families International | Sep 12, 2013 | Abortion, Cohabitation, Family, Parents, UFI Blog
Commitment, loyalty, responsibility. These are all things that we want in ourselves and in those around us. Social scientists have long discussed how we live in a social world. We are not born into a social vacuum; rather our lives influence others, just as their...
by United Families International | Sep 12, 2013 | Family, Parents, UFI Blog
Maddie Gillel There’s a great story in children’s literature about a grasshopper who loves to play his fiddle and dance the whole summer away while watching the busy little ants harvesting everything in sight so that they will have the necessities throughout the...