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Focus on the Family’s Jim Daly in CT Oct. 19th
As FIC email recipients know, Iron Sharpens Iron, the evangelical Christian men’s conference, will be held at the First Assembly of God in Danbury (Brookfield) on Saturday, October 19th. FIC strongly...
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No, It’s Not “Black Thursday”
The first time I heard some blogger quip about “Black Thursday,” I recoiled like a vampire from a cross. You think that’s cute now, I thought, just wait until it starts to stick. About this time...
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Why Pursue Survey if it Makes Students Feel Defensive?
The front page of Monday’s Waterbury Republican-American reads: Litchfield High School senior Hannah Arnold plans to be one of the 406 students who take part in an anonymous ‘Profiles of Student Life’...
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Honoring our Father and Mother
You matter…why else would people carve this into their bicep? One hundred years ago this month, Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Mother’s Day a national holiday. Officially originating in the United States,...
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Good News About Teens and Risky Behavior
In the furor that resulted, rightly, from LiveAction’s revelation that a Planned Parenthood staffer gave what she thought was a 15-year-old girl a graphic personal endorsement of sadomasochism, it is...
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The Sweetness of Life With Dad
Father’s Day is here again, and once again we are prompted to reflect on the mysteries and glories of the inseverable bond between a father and his child. This past week or so, the web has been full...
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CT Prepares for World Meeting of Families
We’re very excited about the World Meeting of Families this September in Philadelphia, which will include Pope Francis’s first visit to the United States. This year’s theme is “Love is Our Mission:...
View ArticleFatherlessness And Poverty: Crisis Still Cries Out For Action
In a recent column, Chris Powell expresses frustration at the madness of dealing only with the symptoms of a serious problem: fatherlessness. We get that frustration very well. It has been more than...
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Cheerful ‘Divorce Selfies’— Just Plain Wrong
The print edition of yesterday’s Hartford Courant, by way of the Washington Post, reports on a ‘trend’ that reeks of the worst aspects of a “me, me, ME” society and leaves us disgusted: exultant...
View ArticleDid We Really Need Quickie Divorce In Connecticut?
Effective October 1, a new law creates a category of people who are eligible for expedited divorce in Connecticut. Qualifying “non-adversarial” couples can get split in less than a month and need not...
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No, It’s Not ‘Black Thursday’
This post originally appeared on FIC Blog for Thanksgiving, 2013. Author’s note: I’m saddened to see that my prediction about coercive corporate policies was dead on. However, my unscientific...
View ArticleShame on the Chamber.
Shame on the Glastonbury Chamber of Commerce for peddling pictures of a naked boy sheathed by a “sold” sign in their “Men of Glastonbury Chamber 2016” calendar (blandly reported here by the Hartford...
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Merry Christmas from The Wolfgangs and Family Institute of Connecticut
On behalf of the Family Institute of Connecticut–and our own family–we want to wish a most blessed Christmas to all of FIC’s members. It is your generous support–and divine providence–that sustains FIC...
View ArticleShocker: Marriage Decline Worsens In CT
Earlier this month, The Hartford Courant reported on an unsurprising trend: the decline of “basic building blocks of society” — specifically the natural family. Connecticut appears to be a canary in...
View ArticleTask Force Takes On Human Trafficking
In recent years, FIC was proud to join other advocates to seek stronger protections against human trafficking in Connecticut; those efforts paid off with the passage of H.B. 5666. Putting more teeth in...
View ArticleMarriage Getaway Is Half Price Through Monday
Support for marriage strengthening projects have been a key component of FIC’s mission from our earliest days. We are pleased to share this opportunity from Biblically-based FamilyLife: register for a...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Donald Trump
Family Institute of Connecticut Action and others call upon Donald Trump to answer questions about where he stands on family issues. [Over the course of a long career in the public eye–and even in the...
View ArticleAdding insult to injury.
Mae Flexer and the Connecticut Alliance to End Sexual Violence want to increase the tax on marriage with SB 1011, ostensibly to fund sexual assault and domestic violence prevention and services:...
View ArticleTell Sen. Flexer: Apologize to Vice President Pence
We know anti-family activists are angry because they lost ground in the last election. We know they are behaving at the state Capitol in ways we have never seen before. But this was low, even for them....
View ArticleFlexer Doubles Down on Defamation
State Senator Mae Flexer responded yesterday to FIC’s request that she apologize to Vice President Pence with the usual smoke screens, attacking FIC for supporting the right of a child to not be killed...
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