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...
by United Families International | Sep 11, 2013 | Same-Sex Attraction, Sexual Orientation, Transgender, UFI Blog
“Choose your religious conviction or choose your livelihood. But, you can’t choose both.” That, in effect, is what the New Mexico Supreme Court has told the owners of Elane Photography. Jonathan and Elaine Huguenin now face over $7,000 fine and court costs because...
by United Families International | Sep 11, 2013 | Breastfeeding, Child Development, Family, motherhood, stay-at-home mom, UFI Blog
Day Care and School Maternal employment in the first year impacts a child’s socio-emotional development. Even when taking into account gender, ethnicity, social class, and mothers’ current employment status, third- and fourth-graders whose mothers worked when they...
by United Families International | Sep 10, 2013 | Child Development, Cohabitation, father, Marriage, UFI Blog
An analysis of 50 separate studies of juvenile crime revealed that the prevalence of delinquency in broken homes was 10-15 percent higher than in intact homes. In addition, there were no appreciable differences in the impact of broken homes between girls and...
