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“Ruling: It’s All About Me”
The Ruling Heard Round The World United Families International is deeply disappointed by today’s Supreme Court ruling making same-sex marriage legal the United States. This ruling by 5 out of 9 unelected judges not only robs Americans of the “freedom to govern...
The “Why” of Abortion Decline
The Real Reasons Abortions are Declining This month the media reported that the rate of abortions in the United States has declined by 12% since 2010. The latest U.S. abortion rate of 16.9 was the lowest recorded rate since 1973. In some states such as Indiana,...
“Good Men — Going, Going, Gone?”
With Father’s Day approaching in the U.S., we gratefully acknowledge the critical contribution of good fathers. We also acknowledge the many ways marriage and family is beneficial to men. Today’s thought-provoking alert by Dawn Frandsen reveals how the disintegration...
Why We Need Children
June 3, 2015 From the Desk of Laura Bunker: In the U.S., we are right between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. So today, we offer an encouraging message for mothers and fathers everywhere. We often speak of the many ways children need mothers and fathers, but we...
“A tectonic social shift”
From the Desk of Laura Bunker: If you are like us, you are concerned about the growing number of cases undermining freedom of religion in the United States. But the trend against religion is not unique to America; it is happening all over the world. For example, the...
Coming to America
Come to the World Congress of Families! “I’m so glad I came to this conference! It’s so encouraging to see I’m not alone.” That’s the sentiment we heard over and over as we talked with people at the 2013 World Congress of Families (WCF) in Sydney, Australia. It was...
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Parental Right in Dire Trouble: The Story of Charlie Gard
by Diane Robertson By now, everyone knows the story of Charlie Gard. He was a very ill baby. His parents wished to transfer his care from the UK to the US. They had crowd-sourced over a million dollars for some experimental treatments. The Hospital would not let...
The Pornography Thieves: Stealing My Daughter’s Innocence
Lessons Learned From My Teenage Daughter’s Pornography Addiction The Author of This Article Wishes to Remain Anonymous As parents of a teenage son, my husband and I have been adamant about teaching him the hazards of pornography. This adheres to an urgency that exists...
The Balancing Act
by Erin Weist I recently read a book written in 1955 by a woman who visited a quiet beach for a vacation alone for several weeks. She observed the world around her and recorded her thoughts as they related to her life, subsequently publishing them as Gift from the...
The Power of Teaching Children to Work
by Elise Ellsworth Many years ago, homeschooling pioneer, Dorothy Moore, described "a woman who was asked by a rehabilitation center to counsel men who had been classified as unemployable. They were not derelicts, Mrs. Moore reports, but instead, well-dressed and...
A Path to Defunding Planned Parenthood
by Diane Robertson Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion provider in the United States. They kill over 300,000 unborn babies each year, and they have been caught illegally selling body parts of unborn babies. So, here at United Families International, we can only...
They, It and Identity
by McKayla Skinner Recently, BBC News published an article entitled Canadian Baby ‘First Without Gender Designation’ On Health Card. The article talks about a non-binary transgender person (neither completely male or female) known as Kori Doty (originally a female),...
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