Author: unitedfamilies

Self-determined gender opens up a can of worms

“Self-determined gender is a cornerstone of a person’s identity. The resulting obligation of States is to provide access to gender recognition in a manner consistent with the rights to freedom from discrimination, equal protection of the law, privacy, identity and freedom of expression.” So says the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in a sterling affirmation of gender fluidity as a human right.

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Virgin Islands attorney general sues JPMorgan Chase for handling Jeffrey Epstein’s financial transactions after his conviction for child sex trafficking. She’s fired days later.

The attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands accused JPMorgan Chase & Co. last week of servicing the pedophilic child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and helping him to illegally exploit women and minors. Days later, Albert Bryan Jr., the Democrat governor of the Virgin Islands, had her fired.

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Pro-lifers slam Trump for blaming candidates who mishandled ‘abortion issue’ for GOP midterm results

“It wasn’t my fault that the Republicans didn’t live up to expectations in the MidTerms,” the former president stated on Truth Social this past Sunday. “I was 233-20! It was the ‘abortion issue,’ poorly handled by many Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on No Exceptions, even in the case of Rape, Incest, or Life of the Mother, that lost large numbers of Voters.”

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New Evidence From Finland That Partnership Instability Reduces Fertility

The transition to below replacement fertility has happened at the same time as (and likely because of) the global “retreat from marriage,” a phrase that captures the many ways that people spend fewer of their adult years married. Fewer enter marriage at all, and those who do marry typically do so later in life, often divorce, and either do not remarry or do not remarry quickly. The retreat from marriage takes many adult years away from the normative context for childbearing (yes, marriage still warrants this description), and population scientists have wondered whether this fertility-dampening cloud might have a silver lining—or whether remarriage might cause people to have more children.

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