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Mothers Are The Bottom Line!
May 4, 2010 Mothers are the bottom line! There are loud voices around us expounding upon the role of women. Often those loud voices seek to eliminate motherhood as a viable option for contemporary women. Some even go so far as to call motherhood a "negative...
What is a human right?
April 28, 2010 What is a human right? What is a human right? What qualifies something as a universal, fundamental right of all humans? The answer is not as obvious as one would assume. Is it divine declaration? Natural law? Customary law? International consensus? Or...
MOTHERHOOD SAFER AROUND THE WORLD
April 20, 2010 MOTHERHOOD SAFER AROUND THE WORLD We are pleased to bring to your attention a study issued by the prestigious medical journal, The Lancet. The Lancet is reporting that worldwide maternal mortality rates (women dying from conditions related to pregnancy...
The Future Belongs to Stable Married Families
April 13, 2010 The Future Belongs to Stable Married Families First, the good news The teen birth rate in the United States fell two percent between 2007 and 2008, after rising for the two years prior. The birth rate for the year 2007, however, was an all-time high. ...
Kenya’s “Choice”
April 6, 2010 Kenya's "Choice" On April 1 the Parliament of Kenya approved a Draft Constitution that, with approval by popular vote, will become the new highest law of the land, giving more power to the people, protecting more rights, and limiting the power of the...
Adult Stem Cells Could Save Your Life
March 30, 2010 Adult Stem Cells Could Save Your Life Being pro-life is much more than being opposed to abortion. We at United Families International enjoy sharing with you other pro-life news"”some good news too. We just learned that a new cord blood bank and...
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Right to Live
By Ally Fife Recently, a woman in her twenties who had suffered sexual abuse as a child, was given a lethal injection at her own request to die. Her psychiatrists and doctors all felt it was in her best interest that she be allowed to choose this eternal sleep,...
Capitalism 1, Forced Minimum Wage Earners 0.
by Rebecca Mallory Well that was quick! I never planned such a quick follow up to my post on this subject just a few weeks ago. But no sooner did the government kowtow to the demands of minimum wage lobbyists than the free market took over, as it always does, and...
The Yes to Sex App and the Problems of Promiscuity
by Diane Robertson Every now and then I think of my grandparents and great grandparents and what society must have been like for them. Things were different back then. People married younger and the divorce rate was under 15%. Babies born to unwed mothers was under...
Monkey see, Monkey do
Sexual content and violence on TV and the potential effect it has on our kids. by Cinthia Jahnsen We all have been there. The awkward moment where we feel that what we are watching on television, or at the movies is not appropriate for our kids. (OrUS for that...
Good Begets Good
by Erin Weist There is a saying that my husband and I use regularly in our home that we’ve learned from having kids: sleep begets sleep. As naive parents we thought that if our baby or toddler missed a nap it would make him extra tired so he’d sleep really, really...
Working with Unreasonable People?
by Annalise Jarman You have probably heard that every family has at least one crazy person, and if you don’t think your family has one, it’s probably you, right? The saying makes me laugh, but it’s kind of true. At the very least, we will all have to work with someone...
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