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Citizens Decide the Fate of Marriage
Oct 17, 2012 We Need a Shutout! US Marriage Score today: 0-32 Citizens Decide the Fate of Marriage To say it is a pivotal time for marriage would be quite an understatement! Supporters of same-sex marriage are energized by recent developments such as the extreme...
Teach Your Children to Work!
Oct 9, 2012 From the Desk of Carol Soelberg: This week's alert comes to us from our Vice President of Family Strengthening. She is a clinical social worker who has been married for 22 years and has four children. She is well-positioned both personally and...
The Secret to a Happy Life
Oct 4, 2012 From the Desk of Carol Soelberg: I typically start my day with a quick view of World Family News. I like to keep up on the threats and strengths families face around the world. It never ceases to amaze me that the news so often reported is like the tail...
Don’t Leave Us to Fight Alone
September 27, 2012 Don't Leave Us to Fight Alone A pre-born life saved... A marriage strengthened... A child's future safeguarded.... These are the objectives of UFI as we donate untold hours of volunteer effort to educate, advocate and unite the pro-family voice...
Fight the Entire Battle
September 20, 2012 From the Desk of Carol Soelberg: "... I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can...
Are the kids really going to be alright?
Sept 14, 2012 Are the kids really going to be alright? You may not even know who Mark Regnerus is but to United Families International, he is a hero. We have waited almost two weeks to write about the vindication of Mark Regnerus, in the hope that we would be able...
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Looking Back, Planning Ahead
by Diane Robertson I started keeping a personal blog in the early days when blogging was still popular in 2007. I was a young mother with 5 small children and they were and are the topic of that blog. Those 5 young children aren’t so small anymore. Five more little...
Taking a Holiday Breather
by Ashley Corbaley It’s the holiday season, a favorite time of the year for many people. While this is a wonderful season, it is also one of considerable stress for some families. Walking into the store the day after Halloween I was bombarded with Christmas music and...
Train up a Child
by Erin Weist Earlier this week I had the experience of being mocked on social media. If you’ve spent any time online this is not a revelation, the internet can be a brutal place to experience the full attack of opinions clashing with one’s own. However the tone and...
Date Night
by Tashica Jacobson Life tends to get hectic from time to time for pretty much everyone; and when it does, it is easy to put some of the things that appear unnecessary on the back burner to deal with when life slows down again. Date night is one of those practices...
Home for the Holidays: 5 Tips for Making the Holidays more About Family This Year
by Elise Ellsworth A favorite childhood memory of mine was my Great-grandma Leuthold’s annual Christmas gathering in Sherwood, Oregon. Nostalgic smells and a crackling fire greeted us warmly as we entered the gathering place. Aunts milled in the kitchen catching up...
Supreme Court to Hear Transgender Bathroom Case
by Diane Robertson The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear the transgender school bathroom case coming from the 4th Circuit Court-- G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board. The ACLU sued the Gloucester County School board in behalf of a student for...
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