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Canceling Cancel Culture – A Goal for 2021 We Can All Embrace
Happy New Year, Friends! 2020 was a crazy year. We saw natural disasters, a world-wide pandemic and needed discourse escalating into looting and violence. 2020 left many feeling insecure or even fearful, for a variety of reasons, to participate in what had...
2020 – A Blessing of Thin Times and Places
From the Desk of Wendy Wixom: “Over the river and through the woods to grandmother’s house we go,” may not be the scene for many this holiday season. What a change this year has been. Often during December our to-do lists grow and the holiday season gets busy as we...
Twenty-seven Year-Old Babies: The Promise and Perils of Embryo Adoption
One day I was getting my hair done when my hairdresser asked, “Do you want to hear the craziness that has transpired since I last saw you?” Her husband had done a DNA test. When his DNA test arrived, he learned he was adopted. Within weeks a biological sister, who...
Why Do We Do it?
December 1, 2020 Our neighborhood has been planning and preparing for our annual Sub for Santa to help less fortunate families. As I have pondered the project this year, I have realized what we need, more than dolls and puzzles, is stronger families. As Michael...
Defending Life at Home and Abroad – The Geneva Consensus Declaration
This Thanksgiving, while pondering my list of things for which I am grateful, I realized my top items always seem to contain people. These individuals, however imperfect, have strengthened me, brought me joy, sometimes even heartache. Yet through it all, they have...
The Amy Coney Barrett Confirmation: A Bright Spot of News in Challenging Times
Children often look at adults to find one who has accomplished what they hope to become. They may choose one person they admire for their success in their career, another for their profound results of dedicated effort in developing a talent and yet another for their...
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The Courage of the Madonnas
By Nicole Smithson Across the country, from Maryland to California are 12 Madonna’s of the Trail. These are identical statues of a woman holding a child in one arm, carrying a rifle in another hand, and a toddler child clinging to her dress. These statues are located...
The False Promise of Cohabitation
By Ashlee Kendell Over the past 50 years, research has shown that the average increased risk for divorce, when related to premarital cohabitation, has not changed. We have 50 years of evidence indicating that cohabiting before marriage does not lead to longevity in...
Video Games: Healthy Pastime or Pathway to Addiction?
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Chelsea Jones In 1992, David* received his first video game system. His parents, like many others, were unaware of the potentially damaging...
What Happens if Abortion is Codified?
By Chelsea Jones No one expects secondary infertility, and yet, I am in the 10% who experience it. We (my husband and I) got pregnant with our first child in the first month we tried. This was not the case when we tried to get pregnant the second time. We endured...
How Redefining Marriage Has Undermined the Rights and Wellbeing of Children
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. By Katy Faust for United Families International A landmark custody dispute between same-sex “parents” is back in the news. In 2000, Lisa Miller and Janet...
The Contempt at the Heart of “Family Planning” Policies
Contributed by Tori Black On the day before the 2021 March for Life, the annual event that marks the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, President Biden signed a memorandum reversing four years of pro-life actions by former...
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