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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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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...
Perpetuating Disunity: The Executive Order on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Tori Black After an inauguration speech calling for unity, President Joe Biden entered the oval office and proceeded to sign a raft of executive...
Canceling Cancel Culture – A Goal for 2021 We Can All Embrace
Contributed by Tori Black “How can you convince somebody that has never met you and the only thing they’ve ever seen of you is that three-second clip?” Mimi Groves was a freshman in high school when she posted a video celebrating her new driver’s permit, in which she...
The Indispensable Role of Dads
By Amy Chariton Growing up in a family with 9 kids – 8 girls and 1 boy – my dad did everything he could to meet our needs and to keep us safe. I remember when I was young, my dad would go around the house late at night after everyone was home to lock the doors. This...
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