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Family Reunion – What’s that?
Family Reunion - What's that? My family and I recently attended a family reunion on a small academic campus that hosts students from all over the world. During breakfast we shared a table with several teenage students, and struck up a conversation with three young...
Pro-Life or just Pro-Birth?
From the Desk of Laura Bunker: One glance at United Families International’s World Family News page tells us that the “Sanctity of Life” encompasses much more than the issue of abortion. It also includes such issues as surrogacy, adoption, and euthanasia. Life is a...
No Good Document Goes Unpunished
No Good Document Goes Unpunished Wouldn’t it be great if the United Nations would adopt a resolution recognizing that “the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society?” That is exactly what happened a few weeks ago in Geneva. In observance of the 20th...
They aren’t relaxing…
From the Desk of Laura Bunker: It may be the sultry “dog days of summer,” but some lawmakers don’t seem to be relaxing in their efforts to pass legislation that could have a negative impact on the families of the world. There are two issues that we’d like to make you...
Do Try This at Home
Good Critical Thinking: Do Try This at Home “A good critical thinker always asks where the author is coming from, and why.” That was good advice from one of my recent “Family Studies”professors, as he urged us to carefully examine the research studies we were...
I Now Pronounce You Married Persons
I Now Pronounce You Married Persons On Monday, Governor Jerry Brown signed a new law recognizing same sex marriage in the state of California. SB 1306 erases the words that were approved by millions of California voters, "Only marriage between a man and a woman is...
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Parenting: Five Better Ways to Communicate
by McKayla Skinner Parent-child communication is often challenging. Across time and culture almost all parents have had to confront contention in their homes, and most have realized that they needed to change the communication patterns in their family. As a...
Punishing Speech is Not the Answer
by Diane Robertson Free speech has been under attack for many years now. Any speech deemed offensive is being punished and those punishments are being cheered from all sides of the political spectrum. It seems that Americans no longer comprehend freedom of speech. The...
Redefining Reality
by Diane Robertson By redefining consensus as fact, conformity as diversity, and violence as tolerance a new progressive movement has succeeded in stifling speech in America and other Western Nations. When an individual or group attempts to publicly speak truth in...
All About Love?
by Erin Weist Sometimes the question comes up among traditional marriage supporters about how to defend marriage in the face of those who invoke statements such as, “love wins,” or “people can’t help who they love,” or “it’s all about love.” Indeed, that would be...
Wrongful Birth?
by Breaunna Stone Many people proclaim themselves to be “pro life,” or “pro choice.” I claim to be both. I am pro life in the sense that I believe that a new life is created at the time of conception, and that every life created, has the right to live beyond life...
Welcome to the Asylum, Eh?
by Diane Robertson The Canadian senate just destroyed science, sanity, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion. They passed the most ridiculous anti-freedom law yet to hit the books of a western nation. In a vote of 63 to 11, the senate added...
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