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Toward a Healthy Marriage
From the Desk of Laura Bunker: With the assault on marriage sweeping across the United States faster than we can keep up, marriage between a man and a woman needs our support more than ever. Our legal options may be limited, but we can help build a “marriage...
What Happened?
From the Desk of Laura Bunker United Families is greatly disappointed that the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the marriage petition of Utah and four other states. Our world may have changed, but it has not ended. If ever there was a time to "keep calm and carry...
What Young People Want
What Young People Want Movie screens, computer screens, tablet screens, and cell phone screens—they’re everywhere and do just about everything—except “screen” out harmful content. Today’s young people are saturated in destructive messages about body image, sexual...
Inevitable? Not So Fast…
From the Desk of Laura Bunker On September 29, the U.S. Supreme Court justices will privately convene to start considering cases for their upcoming term, which begins in October. One case we hope they will accept is Utah’s petition defending the state’s ability to...
The Irony of Feminism and Abortion
The Irony of Feminism and Abortion The radical feminists we confronted at the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) last March donned paper masks calling our pro-life coalition “religious extremists”--in other words, “terrorists.” They insisted that abortion on...
We are Writing History
We Are Writing History American pioneer author Laura Ingalls Wilder once told a journalist, “At the time, I didn’t know I was writing history.” Whether we know it or not, today we too are writing history--a history that will greatly impact generations to come....
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The Best Decision You Can Ever Make
by Elise Ellsworth “I know a good urologist you could visit.” After a few children my husband got this advice from a young male friend. And I must admit that as I embarked on marriage I had adopted the prevailing opinion at my university that having children too soon...
Newsflash: Only Women Breast Feed!
by Diane Robertson La Leche League fills a needed service for new breast feeding mothers. According their website, La Leche League helps mothers to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education, and to promote a better...
The Attack on Monogamy
by McKayla Skinner CNN recently published an article entitled Rethinking Monogamy Today, challenging the centuries long pattern of monogamy in marriage. Instead of couples choosing to “break up, cheat or just ‘settle” when they have sexual differences, the article...
Standing Out from the Crowd
by Breaunna Stone Ever since my experience at the United Nations at the 2017 Commission on the Status of women, I have found a voice inside of myself that is more outspoken and boisterous than it has ever been before. Whether it is on social media, at a family...
Love or Career: Does It Have to Be Either-Or?
by Ashley Corbaley Recently I saw a movie in which a man and a woman who were hopelessly in love with each other decided to break up because they chose to pursue their careers instead of their relationship. They tried to follow their dreams while dating and found it...
Don’t Be Duped
United Families International was privileged to have university students accompany us to the Commission on the Status of Women. Allie Gillespie shares what she learned while at the United Nations. Abraham Lincoln once said, “The problem with internet quotes is that...
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