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We Need Children Even More than They Need Us: Part 2
Hello Friends, Do you remember what it was like for you when your first baby became a part of your home; how caring for this little person was all-consuming mentally and physically? It is almost as if there are two births – the birth of the child and the birth of the...
We Need Children Even More than They Need Us
In February 2019, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) made the following comment on a video posted to her Instagram account: “There’s scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult. And it does lead young people to have a...
Surrogacy: Babies on Demand and Motherhood in Pieces
Hello Friends, Surrogacy…We periodically circle back to this difficult topic. It is one that I honestly hesitate to address because if we haven’t lived with infertility ourselves, we know people who have. We sympathize with their pain, and don’t want to contribute to...
The Equality Act – An Atrocity Against Women
Hello Friends, Last week the House Judicial Committee conducted a hearing regarding HR5. This incredibly dangerous piece of legislation, innocuously named the Equality Act – after all, who doesn’t like equality – has the potential to inflict terrible harm on women,...
The UN: Transforming Society by Restructuring the Family
Hello Friends, This last weekend I was in Verona, Italy at the World Congress of Families VIII. The World Congress of Families (WCF) is an event that brings together people from around the world who want to strengthen and defend the family. It is attended by leaders,...
URGENT! STOP HR5. CALL REPRESENTATIVES NOW!
Hello Friends, The House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing April 2 on HR5, the Equality Act. This bill would amend the Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity. This act poses a serious threat to religious freedom, state independence...
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Technology’s Threat to Our Children
By Marisa Higley As a child I lived a life almost completely without technology. I spent my time outside, climbed trees, played in the mud and dirt, jumped on the trampoline, and picked raspberries from our bushes. Every chance I had I was outside exploring. I rarely...
Make Some Noise
By Tonya Cox I am a mother in California. My husband and I spent most of our family life raising our five children in here. Our youngest child is a senior in high school and our third California high school graduate. I cannot express how grateful I am that in a few...
Gender Identity Politics: Erasing Womanhood at the United Nations and How that Will Affect You
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Tori Black “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” That infamous statement came from the 1998 grand jury testimony of Bill Clinton....
The United Nations and the Family: What does it have to do with you?
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Tori Black March 20, 2003, my family had joined my parents in Maui for a spring vacation. From our tiny, speck of an island in the middle of the...
Unexpected Motherhood
By Kimberly Williams Each year there are millions of unintended pregnancies. In 2013, I became part of that statistic, which changed my life forever. I had been casually dating a guy for 6 months. It was right before Christmas of 2012 that I decided to take a...
The Countercultural Institution of the Family
United Families International: Dedicated to informing you about the issues and forces impacting the family. Contributed by Tori Black In 1975, Tippi Hedren, the actress best known for her role in the Alfred Hitchcock horror film The Birds, visited a Vietnamese refugee...
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