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New Issue of Position Papers: October 2019

You can read more here: October 2019 http://familysolidarity.org/new-issue-of-position-papers-october-2019/

Speak up for Hong Kong!

[10.1] Mourning the 70th Anniversary of CCP (English) #hongkong #protest #news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x9KSKugfns

Study Claiming Religious Children Are Less Generous Proven Wrong, Media Largely Ignores Retraction

https://www.faithwire.com/2019/09/27/study-claiming-religious-children-are-less-generous-proven-wrong-media-largely-ignores-retraction/

"When we reanalyzed these data to correct this error, we found that country of origin, rather than religious affiliation, is the primary predictor of several of the outcomes. While our title finding that increased household religiousness predicts less sharing in children remains significant, we feel it necessary to explicitly correct the scientific record, and we are therefore retracting the article. We apologize to the scientific community for any inconvenience caused."

#5yrsago Hong Kong protesters remain in the streets, defying Beijing: photo gallery https://boingboing.net/2014/09/29/hong-kong-protesters-remain-in.html

HAVE YOU RESPONDED TO THE UK SURROGACY CONSULTATION?

DO YOU WANT TO SEE THE FOLLOWING IN THE UK:

1. Babies sold as commodities
2. Women as production lines
3. Lawyers and agencies feeding off the sale of babies and renting of women’s wombs
4. Birth mothers stripped of legal recognition
5. No real welfare checks
6. No age limits
7. Facebook presenting ads to young women suggesting becoming a ‘surrogate’ would be the solution to their financial worries
8. And more?

IF NOT, PLEASE RESPOND TO THE UK SURROGACY CONSULTATION TODAY:

https://nordicmodelnow.org/2019/08/30/how-to-respond-to-the-uk-surrogacy-consultation-in-10-easy-minutes/

An important voice in favour of fathers speaks out

The French parliament is debating a new law which will extend assisted reproduction to single women and lesbian couples as well. What is interesting is the fact that no less a body than the National Academy of Medicine has objected to the proposed reform on the ground that will be permit the deliberate creation of […] https://ionainstitute.ie/an-important-voice-in-favour-of-fathers-speaks-out/

Joseph Pearce: Within just three years of Newman's death, an educational center dedicated to him opened in the United States. Today, more than 2,000 such centers exist http://ow.ly/6Zz550wi9yl 

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Vitebsk is a city in northeast #Belarus. It's known as the birthplace of the artist Marc Chagall. His early works are displayed in his former home, now the Chagall House Museum. Across the Daugava River, Marc Chagall Art Center features his illustrations and woodcuts.

I wrote this piece the other day, describing how egg "donation" and surrogacy are the newest form of #humantrafficking per the UN definition on what is trafficking. http://www.cbc-network.org/2019/09/newest-form-human-trafficking/

For those of you into podcasts, you might want to subscribe to our new podcast, Venus Rising, where we discuss all things related to women's reproductive health. On this episode, I speak with Taina Bien-Amie who heads up the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. We talk about the legal battle to stop commercial surrogacy in New York. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/venusrising/episodes/2019-09-20T07_00_00-07_00

How Happy Couples Argue

In marriage, conflict is inevitable. Even the happiest couples argue. And research shows they tend to argue about the same topics as unhappy couples: children, money, in-laws, intimacy. So, what distinguishes happy couples? According to “What are the Marital Problems of Happy Couples? A Multi-method, Two-Sample Investigation,” a study published this August in Family Process, it is the […] http://familysolidarity.org/how-happy-couples-argue/

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Bishops denounce ‘hatred against the faith’ as Eritrea seizes Catholic schools http://ow.ly/EgTS50wetrd 

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Top Human Rights Court: Norway violated parental rights

Today (10 September 2019), the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights found that Norway violated the fundamental right to family life through the actions of its child welfare services. Strand Lobben v. Norway was one of several cases appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in which parents complained that Norwegian authorities […] http://familysolidarity.org/top-human-rights-court-norway-violated-parental-rights/