Updates, Blogs AND ANSWERS
IMPORTANT UPDATES
UFI Issue Updates
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...
Sex Selective Abortion: Where Have All the Girls Gone?
Hello Friends, In much of the world, women outnumber men in terms of population. This is usually attributable to greater life expectancy among women. War, disease and substance abuse impact males more than females and affect the ratios between men and women, with...
UN Women – Redefining Gender and Erasing Women
Hello Friends, I suppose we should get over being shocked, but just when you think you’ve seen, and heard, it all, the powers that be at the UN say something that leaves you just dumbfounded. This time around it was the director of UN Women that had us shaking our...
Family: The Key to Thriving Communities and Economies
Hello Friends, One of the best presentations at a recent UN event about families that I attended was given by Joseph Price, an economics professor at Brigham Young University. His presentation was titled “Household Family Structure and the Macroeconomic Welfare of...
Contempt is Keeping Us from Becoming ‘a More Perfect Union’
Many years ago, Neal A. Maxwell, who had served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, likened the spread of sin to spilled milk. He said, “Young parents know how a mere half cup of spilled milk seems to...
LEARN MORE
UFI Blog
Learn about family issues from a wide variety of contributors.
Don’t Believe What You Hear: Money Isn’t the Leading Cause of Divorce
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Jenet Erickson, Sammi Trujillo and Jeff Dew We’ve all seen the headline: “Money is the leading cause of divorce.” In fact, it isn’t money itself,...
Sex Selective Abortion: Where Have All the Girls Gone?
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Camille Williams Recent reports that 132 villages in Northern India had not had a girl born during the previous three months appear to have been...
UN Women – Redefining Gender and Erasing Women
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Tori Black “We are more than you, and essentially you need to learn how to become a bit more like us.” That was the message Katlego Kai...
The Unsuspected Bully
By Laurel Bishop I let it happen to my kid because I didn’t recognize it. Throughout sixth grade, my son sat at his desk, the brunt of his teacher’s jokes and insults. The worst humiliation was the teacher’s direction to the other students to “not be dumb like Cody”....
Same-sex Politics and the Lie of “Inclusivity”
By Tori Black Do you remember hearing as a kid, “Well, if you don’t…then, I won’t be your friend.” There’s a term for using that tactic: relational aggression. Some people learn early in life that threatening people with exclusion is a great way to attempt to get what...
Our Modern Culture War: LGBTQ Rights vs. Religious Liberty
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Tori Black Friday I opened up my newsfeed, and this is what greeted me: an account of a six year old girl traumatized by her teacher who insisted...
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