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VICTORY: Senate declines to ratify CRPD

On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 61-38, refused to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The successful derailing of this treaty came despite votes of support from both Senators John

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Kris Mineau statement on UNCRPD vote in Senate

MFI President Kris Mineau released the following statement after the US Senate failed to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). The final vote was 61-38, short of the 2/3 majority (67 votes) needed

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Parents, are you ready?

Parental Controls for Cell Phones By Paul O’Reilly from TheOnlineMom As the summer break comes to an end and families prepare for the start of a new school year, thousands of parents are bracing themselves for the inevitable urgent demands

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Study suggests risks from same-sex parenting

From The Washington Times – Sunday, June 10, 2012 Two studies released Sunday may act like brakes on popular social-science assertions that gay parents are the same as — or maybe better than — married mother-father parents. “The empirical claim

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CAP: The Bully Agenda

Our friends at the Center for Arizona Policy put out a special message to parents about bullying and the true agenda behind those supporting the anti-bullying efforts. “Many have personal experiences with bullies. For some, these experiences can be truly

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GLSEN awarded more taxpayer dollars

According to our friends at CitizenLink.com, the federal government will now officially—for the next 5 years—fund one of the largest gay activists groups in the nation devoted to promoting homosexuality to public school kids of all ages. GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian

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When schools teach sex to students

Friends of the Family, It used to be that schools taught only the “Three R’s”: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. Those were the days! Unfortunately, we continue to move further and further away from that, and parents’ rights are paying the

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