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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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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...
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Twenty-seven Year-Old Babies: The Promise and Perils of Embryo Adoption
By Katy Faust Baby Molly was created in a petri dish in 1992, and frozen on October 14 that same year. 27 years later, she was transferred into the womb of Tina Gibson and born on October 26, 2020. Tina’s body had also been the warm receptacle for baby Molly‘s frozen...
Defending Life at Home and Abroad – The Geneva Consensus Declaration
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Tori Black Reproductive health. You would think those two words together would mean freedom from illness or injury when producing offspring. And...
Fostering Resilient Families
By Stephanie Batty Everyone of every age experiences stress - it is an unavoidable and important part of life! It fosters adaptation and growth. We are tuned by stress much like a violin is tuned by fine adjustments made to its strings. Our ability to cope and adapt...
The Cohabitation Fallacy
By Deanne Ririe Shacking up was a term for cohabitation used in the 1940s. Over the years the expression has evolved to living together, sleeping together, moving in together, or hooking up. They are different expressions that mean the same thing; two unmarried people...
The Amy Coney Barrett Confirmation: A Bright Spot of News in Challenging Times
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Rebekah Applegate What does it mean to be a feminist? The answer to that question has changed over the course of history. Mary Wollstonecraft was...
Keeping Abortion Viable by Keeping Women in the Dark
By Rebekah Applegate Are doctors required to give information to patients with which they disagree? I have a metabolic disorder called Phenylketonuria (PKU), which limits my protein intake. Recently I attended a conference to roll out a new drug that revolutionizes...
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