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Cultivating Productive Citizens
From the Desk of Carol Soelberg United Families International uses as its motto, "Securing a Future for Families". We dedicate untold hours attending conferences and commissions affecting positive outcomes where issues threatening the family are discussed and...
Every Child Deserves a Father and Mother
September 28, 2011 Every Child Deserves a Mother and a Father A colleague in the pro-family effort has alerted us to another effort underway in Europe to allow children to be stripped of their right to have both a mother and a father. The Council of Europe, in...
Exposing Modern Day Slavery
September 15, 2011 From the Desk of Carol Soelberg: Today we give a brief report on the tragic and disconcerting topic of prostitution and sex trafficking -not a topic that most of us want to go anywhere near. Unfortunately, it is a topic and a concern that...
Schools Days: What are your children being taught?
September 8, 2011 School Days: What are your children being taught? You carefully monitor the television shows your children watch. Your internet has the best filters and is in a public place in your home. You restrict the movies your children view and you are...
Standing Up to Goliath
August 31, 2011 From the Desk of Carol Soelberg: Gratefully, many of you have responded to the invitation we extended last week to express thanks to Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron for his valiant stand on strengthening the family as a means to alleviate...
“Thank You” to a Courageous Leader
August 26, 2011 "Stronger families. Stronger Communities. A Stronger Society" A Courageous Leader Speaks Out! Finally, a political leader has been willing to state the obvious. May the committed parents of this generation rise up against the darkness of our...
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Comfort Zone
by Ashley Corbaley For as long as I can remember Eleanor Roosevelt’s famous saying: “Do one thing every day that scares you” has been my personal motto. I had the quote pinned to my corkboard in my bedroom growing up. I wrote it in school binders and notebooks. It was...
Thankfulness is Mindfulness
by Erin Weist Recently, I was reminded of a group of teenagers who reached out to my mom’s brother as a youth and with that small act of kindness drastically altered the life of their whole family for the better. I can say with assurance that my family, our children,...
It’s Human Nature
by Mekelle Tenney “It’s human nature!” This popular saying is often used to justify behavior. Human nature, or men in the state of nature, was a topic that we studied and debated a great deal in college. And it is something that I have been thinking a lot about...
Pornography’s Slippery Slope
by Kindsey D. Smith Suzie looks down, fighting back the tears as her mind processes what her husband George (names have been changed) had just said. “I’m done being a father and I’m done being a husband” is something that Suzie never thought she would hear when she...
Be the Difference
by Laura Friend I looked over at my 13-year-old daughter and felt that familiar well of love spring up from deep within my heart – my, she has grown into such a beautiful young woman, I thought to myself. We were on our way to see the play “Annie” as a special...
Replacing the Irreplaceable
By Ashley Corbaley When I was younger I accidentally broke a very special family heirloom. After several failed attempts to fix the precious heirloom, I decided to replace it. The replacement, however splendid or similar to the original, did not and could not replace...
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