This Week’s Featured Article

Marriage/Family

How to Import a Baby.

“When a child can have five possible parents, whose citizenship counts?” The exploitation and cold consumerism that create this kind of legal riddle shouldn’t be considered “unintended consequences” of assisted reproduction; they are inherent in the process of separating babies from the moms and dads who create them. Read more

Media Elites’ Major Blindspot on Class and Divorce.

On Monday, the New York Times ran a poignant essay under the headline, “A ‘Broken Home’ Didn’t Break Me, or My Kids.” The op-ed is merely the latest entry in the genre of elite myopia, where educated cultural arbiters use their platforms to normalize life choices their immense financial and social resources allow them to absorb with greater ease. Read more

Solving the nation’s violence problem starts with supporting fathers.

Father’s Day has come and gone for another year, but fatherlessness remains a critical societal problem that none of our political or religious leaders seems willing to address, and the media sweep it under the rug. Read more

Parenting/Parental Rights

Report Shows How ‘Queer Creators’ Spent Years Pushing the LGBTQ Agenda in Children’s TV Programs.

The increase of LGBTQ characters and themes popping up in TV shows made for children in the last decade is not an organic development. It’s the consequence of so-called “queer creators” pushing the LGBTQ agenda and working with major entertainment networks, writers, producers, showrunners, and directors to place sexualized themes into on-screen fare made for young audiences. Read more

The silent tragedy affecting today’s children.

There is a silent tragedy developing right now, in our homes, and it concerns our most precious jewels – our children. In the past 15 years, researchers have been releasing alarming statistics on a sharp and steady increase in kids’ mental illness, which is now reaching epidemic proportions:

• 1 in 5 children has mental health problems
• 43% increase in ADHD
• 37% increase in teen depression
• 100% increase in suicide rate in kids 10-14 years old

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Parents urge Chilean president to veto bill that would undermine parental authority.

Pro-family organizations in Chile are urging President Sebastián Piñera to veto completely the recently passed “System of Guarantees of Children’s Rights” bill.

The bill undermines “the relationship between parents and children, leaving the state as the first protector and guarantor of children, above the parents,” Pizarro told ACI Prensa. Read more

Sanctity of Life

Heartbeat International, others labeled “anti-gender” by pro-abortion European Parliamentary group.

Just days before the European Parliament accepted the controversial Matic Report declaring abortion a “human right,” a pro-abortion group of Members of Parliament in Europe published a document branding Christian organizations “religious extremists” for being in opposition to what they call “human rights for sexuality and reproductive health.” Read more

Canadian parliament refuses to condemn sex-selective abortion.

According to the United Nations, “around 140 million women are believed to be ‘missing’ around the world – the result of son preference, including gender-biased sex selection, a form of discrimination.” Ten years ago, UN agencies, including the OHCHR, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women and WHO issued a position paper condemning the elimination of girls. Read more UFI Note: It is ironic and highly hypocritical that the UN condemns sex-selective abortion, but condones and promotes all other forms of abortion.

Chinese Scientists Try to Make a Male Rat Pregnant. It’s Time to Draw the Line.

Recently, a team of Chinese scientists published a study in which they parabiotically joined a male and female rat, then gave the male rat a uterus and attempted to have it carry embryos to term. Why on Earth would scientists be doing this? Can any helpful scientific advancement be achieved through this experiment? One possible answer: It is a vast overstep of scientific curiosity. Read more

Religion

Supreme Court to decide if parents in Maine can use state funds to send kids to religious schools.

“Parents should have access to a wide array of educational options — public and private, religious and non-religious — so that they can access the school that best meets their child’s unique, individual needs,” stated Bullock. “The Supreme Court now has the chance to help make that a reality.” Read more

Religion at the Supreme Court: What happened this year and what’s coming next?

On Friday, the court announced 10 new additions to its slate of cases for next term, including a battle between a religious family and the state of Maine over whether public tuition assistance funds can be used at private, “sectarian” schools. Read more

Hungary: cooperation with churches leads to lower rates of divorce and abortion.

The Hungarian government’s cooperation with churches has led to a significant reduction in the number of divorces and abortions in the country. Of all the countries in the European Union, Hungary earmarks the largest part of funds to support churches and church educational institutions. Read more

Sexuality

IOF signs petition opposing radical European Union sexual agenda.

The International Organization for the Family, along with over 20 European pro-life and pro-family organizations, has just signed the “Say No to Matic Report” sponsored by Ordo Iuris Institute for Legal Culture, a leading Polish organization dedicated to promoting a legal culture based on respect for human dignity and rights. Read more

Women’s Sports Are under Attack.

There was general outrage when Laurel Hubbard’s inclusion in women’s Olympic weightlifting meant that a young woman of Tongan origin, Kuinini ‘Nini’ Manumua, missed out on going to her first Olympics. Read more

Transgender Privilege.

Transgenders make up a tiny minority of Americans. Less than 2 percent of high school students identify as transgender, for example, according to a study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019. Nevertheless, transgender activists now insist that transgenders be treated as a privileged class. They believe that transgenders are entitled to impose the consequences of their gender identity decisions in complete disregard of the privacy rights and liberties of the vast majority of Americans who identify with their biological sex at birth. Read more