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Are Children “Scary”?
Are Children "Scary"? Attempting to scare people is part and parcel of the Halloween season, but the “zero-population growth” folks have really kicked it into gear the last few weeks. “Scary stories” abound especially since the new report from the UN...
Breast Cancer’s Most Preventable Risk Factor
Breast Cancer’s Most Preventable Risk Factor In the United States, October is the month for pumpkins and trick-or-treaters. It also National Breast-Cancer Awareness Month, a nationwide campaign “dedicated to educating and empowering women to take charge of their own...
Schooled on Education
From the Desk of Laura Bunker On my first day of Jr. High, the principal’s deep voice boomed over the loudspeaker, “Vos Involvitor.” My eyes grew big. Nobody told me I had to learn Latin here! The deep voice continued, “That is our school motto, it means ‘Get...
Emotion vs. Truth
From the Desk of Laura Bunker: Recently I was sitting in a state Legislative Committee Hearing, listening to the debate over whether or not to grant same-sex couples certain legal benefits, when a news reporter hurried into the room and sat in the empty seat beside...
The Genesis of Judicial Activism
From the Desk of Laura Bunker: Three months ago the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v. Windsor that same-sex marriages are entitled to receive federal benefits if they live in a state where same-sex marriage is recognized. This sweeping ruling opened up storm clouds...
Stealth Threat to Families
The Stealth Threat to Families Some threats to the family are overt, and are trumpeted in daily news headlines. Others are more subtle and insidious, as in this true story: After two years of marriage, Lynn realized that her husband was addicted to pornography. He...
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A Chance at Life
by Candice LeSueur I am the fourth of six children in my family. We all joke about how my parents’ third child, the sister just older than me, was a fierce one. My mom thought she would be finished with having kids after her, but I’m so glad she decided to let me come...
Do Playgrounds Have a Religion?
by Diane Robertson Another aspect of the doctrine of separation of Church and State is on trial at the Supreme Court, today, April 19, 2017. This is an important case for families because it affects government interaction with both education and religion. Some say...
A Double-Header of Good News!
UFI president shares with us the progress made at the recent United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. After years of not being able to substantively address “family” in UN documents, the dry spell has ended and “family” is back in a Commission on the Status...
Where Does This All Lead?
United Families International was privileged to have university students accompany us to the Commission on the Status of Women. Andy Gongora shares what he learned while at the United Nations. My main purpose for coming to the UN was to learn about and become more...
Collision Courts
by Diane Robertson For years, the LGBT community has been seeking to make sexual orientation and transgenderism part of non-discrimination laws that were written during the civil rights movement. They have been successful in several states and cities across the...
We’re All Human
United Families International was privileged to have university students accompany us to the Commission on the Status of Women. Elizabeth Warner shares what she learned while at the United Nations. While at the Commission on the Status of Women, I met so many amazing...
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