Marriage and Family

Marriage is one of the most fundamental human institutions and the bedrock of a healthy, productive, safe society.

Because one-man, one-woman marriage serves as the glue that holds communities together and provides the healthiest environment for raising children, we believe it should be both safeguarded and encouraged by public policy.

• Cohabitation: Does cohabitation help couples prepare for marriage?
• Divorce: Studies support marital longevity as a vital component of emotional, mental and physical health for children and adults alike. “No fault divorce” laws undermine these societal benefits and cost the American taxpayer billions of dollars every year.
• Fatherhood: Fathers are essential to child well-being and uniquely equipped to contribute to children’s needs.
• Same-Sex Unions and Parenting: Decades of social science research shows us that children do best when they are raised by their married, biological parents, which makes redefining marriage a risky social experiment.

Human Sexuality

Society and families always do best when individuals follow God’s created intent for humanity. When our policies do not uphold God’s design for human sexuality – one man, one woman in the context of marriage – the results hurt our nation, with our children often paying the greatest cost.

• Homosexuality:
  •  Myths and Facts
  • Culture
  • Family Concerns
• Abstinence: Studies show that students receiving abstinence-centered education in schools initiated sex less and had fewer sexual partners. Abstinence-centered programs not only promote healthy sexuality, but also provide hope and a roadmap for future happiness and fulfillment.
  • Biblical View
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Public Policy

Life

We seek to protect all human life, from conception to natural death.

• Abortion: As one of the most controversial and culture-changing issues of our time, abortion affects all Americans – directly or indirectly.
• Stem-Cell Research/Cloning:The common denominator between embryonic stem cell research and human cloning is the fate of and respect for the human embryo, the earliest life form in the human family.
• Euthanasia/Physician-Assisted Suicide: To what degree should individuals be allowed to control the circumstances of their death — even to the point of involving a physician?
• Genetics: The prospect of genetic intervention holds both great promise and great peril — it all depends on how humans manage this amazing knowledge.

Gambling

Legalized gambling is one of the fastest growing markets in the United States, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake.

• A Biblical Perspective
• Casinos
• Gambling in the U.S.
• Consequences of Gambling
• The Lottery

 Adoption Policy

We are passionately committed to not only promoting adoption among churches and families but also to advocating adoption policies that promote the well-being of children, parents, and families.

• Adoption Laws
• Adoption Statistics
• Same-Sex Adoption

Pornography

Studies now prove that pornography and other sexualized media have the capacity to drastically alter the user’s brain chemistry and functionality.

• Business and Culture
• Pornography and Children
• Anti-Porn Efforts
• The Harm of Pornography
• Enforcement

Sex Trafficking

Sex trafficking is a specific form of human trafficking in which a victim is induced by fraud, force or coercion to perform a sex act for payment.

The Law and the Courts

This section explores the cases and the consequences of judges going beyond their constitutional duty of interpreting law – instead mandating new social policies from the bench – and the impact on our religious liberties, on the family, and on society in general.

Religious Liberty

Although nation was founded by people seeking religious freedom, we are now seeing more and more how our first freedom is being threatened.

Education

Focus on the Family works to honor and protect the rights of all parents to direct their child’s education because at the heart, education is first a “home schooling” experience as parents exercise their God-ordained right and responsibility to educate their children.

• Gay Activism in Schools: American public schools have become a frontline in efforts by gay activists to indoctrinate our children to believe dangerous and misleading messages about homosexuality, bisexuality, and transgender identity issues.
• Homeschooling: In the past 20 years, the home schooling movement has revolutionized education in America. Home schooling is a strategic and vital option for parents in the challenge to raise and educate their children.
• Legislation
• Public Education: Since the early sixties, we have seen a steady and trepidatious move away from parent-directed public education to one now almost completely dominated by the liberal agenda of teachers’ unions like the NEA and university teacher education programs built on humanism.
• True Tolerance: True Tolerance is a website to help parents respond to homosexual advocacy in their child’s public school.

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