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Comprehensive Sexuality and Gender Identity Education: Do You Know What Your Children Are Being Taught?
Hello Friends, As the new school year has gotten off the ground, we have spent the last few weeks focusing on the things we can do as families to help our kids have the best educational outcomes possible. We’ve also warned parents of the potential problems they could...
Same-Sex Attraction and The Truth About Change Therapy
Dr. Dovid Schwartz is an Orthodox Jew and licensed psychotherapist in Brooklyn, New York. With the help of Alliance Defending Freedom, he filed a lawsuit against the city of New York because the city had censored his speech and made it illegal for him to provide...
How Publishers and Librarians Are Pushing Gender Identity Politics on Your Children
Times change. People change. Organizations change. Not always for the better. Such is the case with Scholastic, the world’s largest publisher of children’s books, and the American Library Association, the oldest and largest library association in the world. Both...
The Biggest Predictor of Student Success? Home and Family
There is a lot that we do as parents to provide our children the best education possible. We may choose the home we live in based on school districts and neighborhoods and associated schools. We may enroll our children in charter or private schools. We may have our...
Family-friendly Corporate Culture – A Win for All
As you read this, we are in the midst of the United Nations Civil Society Conference in Salt Lake City. Our road to this conference was a little rocky. When I announced the conference coming to Salt Lake City, I admitted that, even though the conference was about...
Don’t believe what you hear — money isn’t the leading cause of divorce
The financial news this week got a lot of people nervous. That’s understandable. The last economic downturn was painful. My husband is in the airline industry which was badly affected starting with 9/11. We call it the “lost decade.” For a workforce that is already...
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More women are in the workforce than men. Should we celebrate or be concerned?
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. By Jenet Erickson for United Families International A recent report from The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics lit up headlines across the nation: “Women now hold...
Not If, But When: Arming Our Girls for Menstruation Mishaps
by KayLynn Wheeler We have all heard the terms shark week, Aunt Flo, and the crimson wave. Many of us hear these terms and know instantly that someone is referring to her period. Even the word period is slang for menstruation. Yet, even with the acceptance of period...
The Equal Rights Amendment – Symbolism vs. Substance
Contributed by Tori Black Leap years are such an interesting phenomenon. The idea that there is this extra day once a year fascinated me as a child. I wondered if I would ever meet someone who was born on February 29th. It turns out one of my favorite comic operas...
Bella Thorne Became Bella Porn? A Research Response to an ex-Disney Princess
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Joey Sheppard Bell Thorne hit stardom with preteens and young teenagers alike when she starred in the record-breaking 2010 Disney TV show Shake...
Lessons from Dumbledore: Standing Up to Anti-Science Activism
By Tori Black In the first of the Harry Potter books, The Sorcerer’s Stone, the headmaster, Dumbledore, shares this bit of wisdom: “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” JK Rowling, the author of the...
Bethlehem and the Gift of the Family
Contributed by Tori Black Every December for the last three years, I have participated in a community event in San Diego celebrating the season in inspired word and song. Every year is a witness of hearts and lives changed just by spending an hour and a half listening...
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