Updates, Blogs AND ANSWERS
IMPORTANT UPDATES
UFI Issue Updates
The Sexual Ideologies Competing for the Hearts of Your Children
Hello Friends, Do you ever wonder “how did we get here?” I do. All. The. Time. Many people don’t realize the outsized influence just one person can have on society. Alfred Kinsey was one of those people. Until fairly recently, the public did not know both how much...
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...
LEARN MORE
UFI Blog
Learn about family issues from a wide variety of contributors.
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...
The Equal Rights Amendment – Not Dead and Still Dangerous
This image is from the Florida Memory Project hosted at the State Archive of Florida and is released to the public domain in the United States under the terms of Section 257.35(6), Florida Statutes. By Tori Black On her first day of work, Amelia Bedelia, the...
Thanksgiving Food for Thought
By Tori Black Thanksgiving has always been one of my favorite holidays: a day to gather with those we love and focus on all that we have to be grateful for. It also tends to feel a little squeezed though: the four-day break that separates the costumes and candy of...
Preparing Children to Guard Their Hearts and Minds
By Eleah Boyd According to statista.com, there are somewhere between 500,000 and one million newly published book titles every year in the United States. With the cost-effectiveness of small print runs and digital book publishing, self-publishing is easier than ever....
The Pernicious Effect of Pornography on Home and Society
Contributed by Tori Black United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Author Mary Day Winn once said, “Sex is the tabasco sauce which an adolescent national palate sprinkles on every course of the menu.”...
GUIDE TO FAMILY ISSUES
Learn About Family Issues
Our mission is to strengthen and defend the family, with focus in the following areas:
Family
Marriage
Life
Human Sexuality
Parents
Religion