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Standing Up to UN Overreach at the Commission on the Status of Women
Each year, prior to the beginning of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), UFI is engaged in training and preparing college students and other adults to engage in this two-week-long annual event centered on women's rights. Part of the UFI team follows the...
Equality and Fairness: Re-establishing the Common Good Through the Principle of Compromise
The Equality Act, once again, looms large in the political and cultural debates - threatening religious freedom, women's rights and our way of understanding marriage, family and humanity as it relates to discrimination in the public square. To some, the Fairness for...
Video Games: Healthy Pastime or Pathway to Addiction?
This past year brought changes into our lives that we never anticipated. Many parents are now feeling overloaded and short on time as they need to spend more time taking care of their family and overseeing their children’s education. On the other hand, some adults...
How Redefining Marriage Has Undermined the Rights and Wellbeing of Children
A landmark custody case has resurfaced as Lisa Miller has returned to the United States and turned herself in to face charges for kidnapping. Her daughter, Isabella, who is now 18 remains in Nicaragua. Even years later there is controversy about who is the victim in...
The Contempt at the Heart of “Family Planning” Policies
Mildred Fay Jefferson was the first black women to graduate from Harvard Medical school. Not only did she graduate, she had 28 honorary degrees. She said, “I became a physician in order to help save lives… I am not willing to stand aside and allow the concept of...
Perpetuating Disunity: The Executive Order on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
Though on the outside President Biden’s Executive Order on “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation” may sound fair and reasonable, it’s the brutal reality of how it uniquely harms women and girls where we need to...
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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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