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A Tale of Two UN Side Events
March 31, 2016 Have Courage and Be Kind: A Tale of Two UN Side Events We hit the floor running last week, as the second week of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) began. We were getting ready for a three-hour Side Event presentation co-sponsored by...
Why did we come to UN this week?
March 18, 2016 Why Did We Come to the UN this Week? Squishing into crowded subways and dodging honking taxis, 21 members of our United Families International team have been in New York at the United Nations “Commission on the Status of Women” (CSW) this...
Talking about “gender” with your children
From the Desk of Laura Bunker There are some things we just plain dread. We put them off, dance around them, do anything to avoid them. Such as having to write this alert about the confusing world of multiple genders. And such as parents having try to...
What others may be thinking of you
March 4, 2016 Religion: What Others Are Thinking By Ann Bailey Most of us rightly care what our neighbors think of us. We value our civic relationships and want to be seen as responsible, caring citizens. Barna Group, a highly-regarded survey and research...
A Natural Death is a Dignified Death
From the Desk of Laura Bunker: It’s that time of year again, when many state legislatures and parliaments are in session, grappling with thousands of issues from Abortion to Zoning. This year a relatively new issue is making its way into governing bodies...
The New Public Health Crisis
History was made last Friday. The first ever Resolution in the U.S. (possibly the world!) that declares Pornography as a Public Health Crisis passed a Utah Senate Committee -- without a single word of opposition -- and in the words of the committee chair, “more than...
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A Little Money goes A Long Way: What we did with yours
Merry Christmas! As we celebrate this season of giving, I’m writing to let you know your support this past year was instrumental in providing many of the resources needed for 2017 to be a record-breaking year for UFI. We cannot thank you enough! Miracles are...
Traditional Marriage : Our Duty to Defend
By McKayla Skinner Recently, Australia became the 26th country to legalize same-sex marriage, doing so by means of ballot and parliamentary action. Let us briefly review the context of the change, as well as three lessons that family advocates can learn from it. Since...
Courting Religious Freedom
Included in the landmark ruling of Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage in the United States, were following words: “Finally, it must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to religious doctrines, may continue to advocate with utmost,...
Added Bit of Magic
By Tonya Cox My son and his wife just had their first baby and he is thrilled with this new role. It is a privilege and responsibility he has looked forward to and he takes it seriously. In America there are a reported 72 million fathers! Most countries around the...
Love and Fidelity
By Tonya Cox “The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.” ~ Sigmund Freud “It is an unprecedented time in the United States in the history of sexuality” claims the America Psychological...
We Need a Few Good Men
By Erin Weist News in the United States was recently inundated with scandals involving sexual assault. These subjects range through Hollywood celebrities, movie directors, politicians, high-profile doctors, and more. Most consist of women accusing men of assault,...
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