Fw: Defending the Natural Family: Last Chance in 2010

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011 DEAR ALL. 4th WORLD FAMILY CONGRESS AT POLAND MAY 2007 WITH THEME===NATURAL FAMILY; BEST FAMILY.Dr. Surendra Muralidhar Kulkarni phone 07232 252129 Yavatmal. Shri.Vasantrao Naik Govt. Medical College PHYSIOLOGY DEPT. ASSO. PROF.Mob.08087121698.PIN 445001On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:32:54 +0530 "Secretariat" secretariat@... wrote

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T H E H O W A R D C E N T E R for F A M I L Y, R E L I G I O N & S O C I E T Y

Dear Friend of the “Natural Familyâ€,

Greetings from The Center! If we are to continue to encourage and defend the “natural family†in 2011, we need your help now! I invite you to make an end of the year gift now at : http://www.profam.org/THC/xthc_join.htm.

The Center strives to be the leading source of fresh ideas and new strategies for affirmation and defense of The Natural Family, both nationally and around the globe. As Hitchcock (St. Louis University) has said, “The Center has emerged as the most informed, perceptive, and effective defender of authentic family values in the United States.â€

The Center pursues four goals in support of our mission:

(1) To articulate and promote a morally sound natural family worldview that can serve as a reliable guide to culture, law, and public policy;

(2) To encourage primary research on natural family themes;

(3) To provide open communication between scientific research on the family and grass roots interest and religiously motivated engagement on family issues; and

(4) To rally an effective global voice in favor of the natural family that will counter the destructive elements within the emerging international “post- family†culture.

In pursuit of these goals, we publish our The Family in America: A Journal of Public Policy, write books and essays for policy journals, directly support new pro-family scholarship, build a pro-family database (New Research and The Swan Library), craft four extensive pro-family websites (www.profam.org, www.familymanifesto.com, www.worldcongress.org and www.familyinamerica.org), issue our World Congress of Families Newsletter to thousands of policy leaders and activists, and convene the Congress itself on a periodic basis.

As The Center begins its fourteenth year, there are even more signs of turmoil in the family system of Western Christian Civilization. Marriage rates are in full-scale retreat; at the same time, the proportion of children born out of wedlock soars, climbing over 40 percent in The United States. The protagonists of the Sexual Revolution keep the Christian Home in their gun sights; the court-driven push for “Same Sex Marriageâ€â€”a direct repudiation of the Judeo-Christian sexual ethic—claims ever more states and nations. Plummeting birthrates portend the disappearance of a once vital Christendom. Recent, conventional pro-family strategies to encourage marriage and marital childbearing have faltered.

The Center for Family, Religion & Society holds that Ideas Have Consequences. We believe that the weakness of the Western family system derives largely from a failure of both imagination and will in communicating biblical principles about family and marriage. In recent decades, most defenders of the family have relied on terminology at once tired and distorting: they have defended “the traditional family†or “the nuclear family.†The former term is backward-looking and uninspiring; the latter sounds like a bomb! Instead, we published just a few years ago The Natural Family: A Manifesto, a treatise that seeks to alter the very language of debate while remaining true to biblical principles. Already, the “natural family†vision as articulated in that document has begun to take hold among key advocates, portending a better future.

Toward this, here is an update on three of our projects: The Family In America, Ground-breaking Books and Essays and the World Congress of Families:

The Family in America: A Journal of Public Policy is a quarterly publication that will shape fresh ideas and approaches to promote the Natural Family ideal in the years and decades ahead. Building on the twenty-two year legacy of a monograph series bearing the same first name, this new periodical is designed to appeal to academics, journalists, writers, and committed activists. It continues a “New Research†component that is already the nation’s finest and most complete collection of pro-family research Abstracts in the fields of sociology, psychology, medicine, and so on. Our goal is no less than winning a radical change in the terms of debate currently surrounding family issues. The praise continues to come in: “The most incisive guide to issues facing the American family today…. An invaluable resource for anyone wishing to stay on the cutting edge research on family trends†(Professor W. Bradford Wilcox, University of Virginia), “Brings impressive intellectual firepower to an important area of study and debate while providing keen insights into the fate of the American family†(Professor Bruce Frohnen, Ohio Northern University School of Law).

Ground-breaking Books and Essays are a regular product of The Center. Other recent books from Center scholars include: Conjugal America: On the Public Purposes of Marriage; Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fatherhood, Marriage, and the Family; Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies… And Why They Disappeared; and Christianity: Lifeblood of America’s Free Society. The newest volume, by yours truly, is Godly Seed: Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973, to be published by Transaction in 2011. Dr. is working on a new book on the destruction of America’s education system and how to fix it, “America’s Best Colleges! Really? Center scholars also regularly write for Intercollegiate Review, Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, Modern Age, The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, and other leading American idea and opinion journals. In addition, Center scholars carry their message to the rising generation, recently giving lectures to student audiences at Hillsdale College, The University of Michigan, Yale University, Washington University of St. Louis, University of Notre Dame, Regent University, Bethel University, the Catholic University of America, Harvard University, Lomonosov Moscow State University and Washington State University, among others.

The World Congress of Families (WCF) serves as the rallying network for the world’s family systems grounded in religious faith. In response to a militant secular individualism that dominates the United Nations and other international bodies, the WCF fosters a unique international network of pro-family organizations and scholars that raise up The Natural Family as the fundamental social unit, the ‘seedbed’ of good citizenship. Major WCF events have been held in Prague (1997), Geneva (1999), Mexico City (2004), and Warsaw (2007). Most recently, the WCF V convened in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in August 2009. Delegates from 63 nations affirmed in the historic Declaration of Amsterdam that: “the natural family… rest on the lifelong marriage of a man to a woman, for the purposes of welcoming and nurturing new human lifeâ€; “children predictably do best when raised by their natural parents in a married couple homeâ€; and “the future of nations rests on families that are spiritually grounded.†Four new Dutch organizations have formed as a result of our Amsterdam Congress, which will continue proclaiming the pro-family message in the Netherlands and Europe. After 12 years, five successful Congresses, - from Prague to Amsterdam - and a growing international coalition from 85 countries in the pro-family movement, we believe the World Congress of Families has proved its worth. In 2011, we will be holding WCF conferences in Latvia, England, Nigeria, and Russia. WCF VI is tentatively planned for Madrid, Spain in 2012. Australia and India have already submitted bids for WCF VII in 2013. Here in the United States, our network has helped unite and strengthen all of the conservative pro-family groups from Family Research Council, Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, Focus on the Family, The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, National Right To Life, Priests for Life, The American Family Association, Priests for Life and Concerned Women for America to name just a few.

We hope you will agree that The Center continues to be a wise investment for defending families and traditional values, and for renewing the foundation of Western Christian Civilization. However, for this work to continue and grow, we need your support. Please consider year end gift as 2010 draws to a close.

Godspeed!

Allan C. Carlson

President

P.S. We need your help now to make a difference in our communities and in our world! Give now at www.profam.org/THC/xthc_join.htm or click here. You can also call us at 815-964-5819 or 1-800-461-3113 to make your gift. For every gift over $75 we will be pleased to send you a copy of “The Natural Family: A Manifesto†by Allan Carlson, a publication that is “required†reading for anyone concerned about economic and societal problems caused by the decline of the “natural family (www.familymanifesto.net and www.familyinamerica.org).â€

P.P.S. Gifts and checks postmarked by January 1 are tax-deductible for 2010 or give now at www.profam.org/THC/xthc_join.htm or click here.

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